Reading harold_maude's journal

He sat watching the clouds passing. The stars were still there as was the moon.
It reminded him of something he'd read so long ago as a child.
A nursery rhyme.
Somthing about a wooden shoe and going to sleep.

Sleep was the last thing on his mind tonight as he felt the place where just a few hours earlier the sharp teeth of a wild dog had been planted.

It still burned. The pain won as he let loose a deep howl. It seemed to catch the animal off gard for just a moment. That was all it took for him to break free and knock the animal away.

Of all things to encounter on a late night walk, a dog was the last thing he expected. It was bigger than most dogs that he had ever seen before.
Even as the dog attacked him, the color of it's eyes burned through him, as though it wasn't interested in his skin and what lay beneath.
In that moment right before the dog bit, he was sure that it wanted the living thing inside him. His soul.

He could still feel the eyes burning through him. That terrifying gaze that held him motionless in time.

Hours passed by. He dozed in and out of jagged sleep, jumping awake, heart pounding so loud he heard it in his head.
Somthing made him believe that the animal would come looking for him. What it was after it hadn't gotten, and so it would find him.
The knock on the door woke him with a start. Sitting straight up but not answering, he could feel the sweat trickling down his forhead.
He looked down at his leg, expecting to see it swollen and red.
But to his amazement there was no sign of the wound.

He must have been dreaming he thought, after examing his leg.
He heard the knocking again, and this time a voice followed.
"Mr. Glass, this is your wake up call, just as you requested."

He answered that he was awake, and heard footsteps walking away.
Was he dreaming? Had he been asleep all night?
It had been so real.

...to be continued as the story unfolds. If anyone would like to continue and take it further before I do, feel free to.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.