February 2010
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YOUR DECISION – GRAND PRIZE WINNER, PLUS FINAL...
Thanks to everyone that participated in or followed the “Your Decision” Comic Contest!
We had awesome entries to work with - including many that didn’t quite make the master storyboard.
Congratulations to Nan McCormick who’s chapter has been selected by Alice In Chains as the Grand Prize winner!
Nan wins a trip to NYC to see Alice In Chains play their sold-out show at Terminal 5, plus chance to...
THE FINAL CHAPTER HAS BEEN DECIDED, AND THE "YOUR...
THE CONCLUDING WINNING ENTRY IS“KELLY D”. CLICK HERE TO VIEW KELLY’S ENTRY.
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The Final Chapter / Final Decision
She began to dissolve from my vision, like the tattoo from my arm. Everything turned blurry, like seen through a mirage in a hot desert. I spun back to the wall and felt sick to my stomach. My head was spinning; I lost my balance and fell to the ground. I woke sometime later in familiar surroundings — I’d been here before. The nurse told me the police picked me up in an alley....
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The Final Chapter / Final Decision
Instead of running like I have always done, I decided to stay. I then turned around and looked at her ” why aren’t you running”? she asked me with a demonic scream. I replied, “isn’t that what you have always wanted”. As I got closer to her the mansion behind her went up in flames, and she screamed “NOoooo”. She raised the gun a foot away from my...
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The Final Chapter / Decision
I ran as fast as humanly possible. The cops moved in closer as the evil woman screamed in terror. They asked her what happened; she tells them a story laced with deceit. The cops approached me with their guns lifted. Their shouts of “freeze” echoed throughout the courtyard. I pretended to cooperate with the cops as they moved within 30 feet of me. The woman looked at me with her...
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The Final Chapter / Bittersweet
I realized at that moment ,the taste of sweet freedom became bittersweet. To have this beast if you will basically challenge me as a man. Here I am standing outside this house , as she toys with me. Telling me I would take the fall to the horrors that lie within…I couldn’t let that happen. Against my better judgement. After choking on some of my own vomit…I am going back...
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The Final Chapter / Times running out
As I looked over the wall into the face of the officer I knew it was over. “Sorry officer, it was a false alarm” I said as my eye twitched with nervous energy. I let the police know that it had been an animal, a dog or possibly a bear, that had run past the window. “Why all the blood?” the officer said to me in a quizzical fashion. I explained that I was able to wound the...
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The Final Chapter / Confusion
Just then I was thrown to the ground by an incredible explosion. Debris rained down as a huge fireball painted the sky a bright orange. Everything faded to black as I lost consciousness…. “Hello? Can you hear me?” A distant voice echoed. I slowly opened my eyes. Everything slowly came into focus. “Where am I? What happened?” I groggily moaned. I scanned my...
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The Final Chapter / Déjà vu
My addled mind couldn’t comprehend the situation, nor gain enough focus to make a sound decision. Fight or flight? My brain chose the latter. As I hurried back through the mansion, the agonising torments of the incident plagued my memory, like a perpetual drug hallucination gone nightmarish… it was as if my life were flashing before my eyes. My consciousness was lapsing; before I knew it,...
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The Final Chapter / Arrest
Arrest seemed to be the only way to escape from there! Through the gate bars I saw two cops left the car, calm but alert. Breathless, I opened the gate. Immediately they pointed their guns. Only then I realized my aspect - eyes glazed, torn clothes covered with blood… More insane than victim. I lifted my arms, relieved, nevertheless. At least they would take me away. Searched me. While they...
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The Final Chapter / Bound
The police wouldn’t believe such a wild story, if I hadn’t witnessed it myself I wouldn’t believe it either. In a panic I run to the opposite side of the yard and struggle climbing the rough surface. “There’s no point in running,” she yelled. I could barely control my nausea at site of those who have tried to escape before, tangled in the barbed wire surrounding the wall. Barbs pierced my flesh...
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The Final Chapter / Freedom
If I run her evil laughter will echo behind me forever. She came closer and put her arms around me. -“You belong here. Your struggle is over, nothing to debate.” She closed her eyes and went for a kiss. A second before our lips touched I whispered: “Paperwork —invalid date,” and without a thought snapped her neck. Her body fell to the ground slowly, turning to...
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The Final Chapter / Over Now
Dammit! She had everything prepared from the very beginning. And what about that speed? I guess I’m not dealing with humans here. But what should I… Suddenly I feel a crushing pain in my chest. The brunette is holding a heart within her hands. “How did you…?” She gives the heart to me. “We could end this quickly or… well, it’s your...
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The Final Chapter / Burn it
You run back towards the house, snatching the empty pistol from the hands of the lady. “Never going to follow any vixen home again no matter how beautiful” you thought. You can hear her laughing on the lawn, as you run in the front door. Once inside, you head towards the dining room. The candlesticks will help burn this place down. Pretending the gun is loaded you hold it out to...
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Final Chapter / 9687
I sped down the corridor screeching to a halt at an opened bloody steel door. Horrified, I looked on the scene of two lifeless bodies; one male, one female. The woman’s clothes were torn apart, bare ass open to the air. Her head unnaturally twisted 180 degrees, with bloody tears running down from hollowed eye sockets. I radioed dispatch. “10-4.” I secured my radio into its...
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The Final Chapter / The End is Nigh!
Should i go back, retrieve the gun and finish her off? Or keep on running? My heart was in too much of a panic and my brain was rushed with inaudible thoughts. My wrist was now free of the branding but ached still. The sirens intruded my incoherent questions, wailing to a deafening pitch. The red light beamed through the thick mist which had descended through the woodland. An ambulance parked in...
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The Final Chapter / Destiny Awaits
Grabbing her arm, I run back towards the house. Determined to make the best of what has brought me here. Stumbling into the house, she is so close, her scent calls to me. It is sweet, yet sickening, and I want a taste. Our lips touch, and I lose myself to the rapture that is her desire, kindling a need deeper than any I have known before. Her dreams a scene played out in front of my eyes. ...
The Final Chapter
In a matter of seconds my fury turned into skepticism as I decide on what to say. This can’t be real. What could I have possibly done to deserve all of this? I shut my eyes and try to go back, but my memory is failing me. A symphony of pictures flashed onto the canvas of my eyes, these distorted memories made their way from out the back of my skull. For a brief moment, everything made sense....
The Final Chapter
I whispered, “I’ll stay.” With a wave of her hand the red lights vanished, and the cars exited. I looked down on my arm and saw that ‘9687’ had reappeared. Reluctantly, I followed her back into the house. She led me to a room with a table covered in food, and seated with guests. I sat at the end, and she accompanied me on my left. In front of me sat a covered plate. The woman stood up and made a...
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The Final Chapter / The Waking.
I stood there caught like a rabbit in her laughing dark eyes. My brain was moving so sluggish it was hard for me to hold on to any thoughts. I could hear the vehicle moving closer, closer, until I could almost feel it crushing me. My legs gave way and all I could think was “save me, please somebody save me.” As I gasped fighting to breath everything started to spin, faster and...
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The Final Chapter / Revelations
I finally figured it out. The Lady In Black. The people being eaten. It all came down to this very conclusion: She was Death itself. This party was to trap the weak-willed, the addicts, people lost in time in their very moments of greatest failures: It was one massive bloodbath buffet. Inside, every last one of them screamed for death to end their torment, and this vixen granted their wishes! ...
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The Final Chapter / Framed
I break down the back door and start running. The sirens are gaining fast when I take a detour down a side alleyway. The alleyway feels strangely familiar. I jog along, feeling less pressed for time. I pass a sack behind a dumpster. I has blood satins all over it, and has lumps with sickeningly obvious shapes. It seems like I may be in the right place. Suddenly, my path’s cut off on two...
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Removed from Final Chapter Consideration by Author...
I backed against the prison-like stone wall . My chest could hardly contain my heart, it raced so. Cold sweat covered my face as I struggled for any short breath. I was suffocating as pain gripped my body. I was so close to freedom but the fear paralyzed my entire being. The cops and ambulance raced to the heavy metal gate and skidded to a stop. The cops jumped out and found me with their spot...
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The Final Chapter
My heart pounded in my chest, and I felt bile rising. What could I do? I glanced around nervously, biting my lip. I steadied myself against the wall. I stared at my untouched wrist. Staring at a piece of glass on the ground, I pondered the fact whether I should carve the numbers myself back in. I bent down and picked up the glittering shard, and took it to my wrist. 9687 glistened on my...
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The Final Chapter / Never Ending
In a state of shock my eyes shoot to the driveway as police cruisers screech to a halt onlu feet from me. It’s like, everything is happening in slow motion. My eyes are locked with hers, my arms shoved up behind my back… This can’t be happening. I can see her through uniform clad bodies, and they don’t react to her at all. I thrash against my restraints, cuffs digging...
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The Final Chapter / Trapped
“Okay, I understand…” I’d gotten to freedom. The harsh light burned my eyes when they shifted up from the steel table I was cuffed to. “They served, people… For dinner.” “How many times-” Another detective stepped forward. “I know it sounds insane-” “I’ve got bodies, coming in, in droves. You talk, or, we make you...
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The Final Chapter / Come again?
I’d rather take my chances so I scramble for the wall. In desperation, I scrape my skin raw climbing over. When I jump down I’m greeted by two cops, guns up. I’m booked and placed in a cell pending investigation, and yet I’m relieved. Urine soaked mattresses are welcome respite from the smell of blood…an improvement, one hell over another. The next morning, I feel bound and tight across my body....
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The Final Chapter / what is to come...
she slices into the organ on the plate which in turn backgrounds the horrors of addiction in its final stages (layne). the cutting is symbolic of the severing of the human spirit at the hands of chemicals. continue the theme of the woman as the temptress - gradually her beauty wanes (in parallel wih the scourge of dependence). ultimately, she’s left with the choice of life or death.
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Sirens wailed on the rising wind. With surprising strength, she pulled the barrel between her breasts. Her fingertips grazed mine as she stroked the pistol and her breath gusted warm across my cheeks. Blood…Its thick, coppery stench made me cringe. I pulled the trigger. ‘Click.’ Crap. I dropped the gun and ran...
Chapter 5 / Decision!
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Chapter 5/ Madness In The Moonlight
Sirens wailed on the rising wind. With surprising strength, she pulled the barrel between her breasts. Her fingertips grazed mine as she stroked the pistol and her breath gusted warm across my cheeks. Blood…Its thick, coppery stench made me cringe. I pulled the trigger. ‘Click.’ Crap. I dropped the gun and ran like a madman, her cruel laughter echoing behind me as I trampled flower...
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Chapter 5/ Dreams
I head for the door, wondering how many have tried to escape this place. Yet, calmly threading my way through the darkness. Chancing that she will not follow, at least not tonight, for the dawn is close, and she only comes in darkest night, in dreams, or would this be considered a nightmare? I shall not be a feast for others, yet, maybe part of me already has. My fear, a feast ravaged by those...
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Chapter 5
In a matter of seconds my fury turned into skepticism as I decide on what to say. She must be lying for we‘ve never met. What could I have possibly done to deserve all of this? I shut my eyes and try to go back, but my memory is failing me. A symphony of pictures flashed onto the canvas of my eyes, these distorted memories made their way from out the back of my skull. For a brief moment,...
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Chapter 5/ Escape
Wrapping my hand about her throat, I squeezed. Her eyes bulgged, the vessles there bursting as she fought uselessly for air, scratching at my wrist and hand where I held her tightly against the wall. Finally, what felt like a lifetime later, her struggling stopped. Releasing her, I watched as her lifeless body crumpled to the floor. Killing her had not been what I had wanted to do, but I...
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Chapter 5
You’ll NEVER find her! You need me, you don’t have much time. They will kill her, she’s safe for now. “How can YOU help me?” I can take you to her…but you’ll have to do exactly what I say. “I need proof she’s alive. “You’ll get your proof. “Then take me to her.” First you’ll need to change. She takes me to a...
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Deep Fried Hell
I hesitated to pull the trigger… but it was her or me. I squeezed. Click. I desperately pulled it twice more! Click, click. Empty. Shoving my hostage to the floor I turned to bolt through the door as a powerful fist connected with my temple… Lights out. Aromas of searing meat and spices filled my nostrils as i came to. I blinked repeatedly until the setting came into focus. I was in...
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One of us
I could not risk her coming after me. Shot her in the stomach. She collapsed, still alive, without a moan and laughing at me. “You were born to be a prey,” she said. I went into a fever that made me shoot her again. In the head. The laughter stopped. Then everything went black. When I woke up, felt a pain in my neck and knew they had hit me from behind. I found myself sitting at the...
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chapter 5 / moon light drive
As i ran through the door out into the yard i had only ran a few feet when i tripped over something but was back on my feet in no time only to trip over something again and as i tried to move i realized what ever i was tripping on now had a hold of me. It was a battle scarred hand working its way through the ground…
Terry P
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chapter 5 / moon light drive
as i ran for the door the womans words echoed through my head like a vice tightning migrain. The moon light was barely breaking through the trees when i began to run through the yard barely able to see and not sure where to go i tripped and fell but was back on my feet and running only to trip and fall again. now as i began to run again only to trip again this time it wasnt letting go. Now as my...
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Flee
I need this bitch. I’m not feeling my best and no way I have enough bullets to shoot all the goons blocking my way. So I press the gun to the back of her head and say move. She hesitates a little until I cock the hammer back. I have the whole places attention now. All eyes on me. I can feel the sweat soaking through my shirt. We slowly make our way outside. Where did I put my car. ...
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Is this for real? Is she really threatening me even at gunpoint? Well there’s only one thing to do… I killed her (Killing a homicide like her shouldn’t be a problem after killing a poor hostage) and got into my car. As I followed down the road I started to think on those footsteps I heard back on that room. Weren’t they after me? Where did they go? That doesn’t make...
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Stand before us, declare that its over
I simply sat in front of her calmly, with my eyes stinging with sweat and exhausted from the struggle of this whole situation. I then stood up and voraciously smacked her head in anger because of the shame I felt that I will not be able to get out of here myself nor with my own knowledge. I then convinced myself to take this women hostage and force her to lead me out.. as we headed down...
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esting ground
I ran to the iron gate thinking to myself how did I let it go this far? “You chose your fate with your sins that you have commited , the womans voice said,” You chose your desires over the truth and now you are one with us.” I looked around to realize that she could hear my thoughts nothing I could do could escape them. I was branded I had became one of them they were just...
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Chapter 5
Grabbing her arm I steered her along the alleyway, stopping to catch a glimse of her shatterproof blue eyes, the cause of my unfortunate predicament. She gave an alluring smile, my heart raced. It was that moment I sent a bullet racing to her brain. Hitting the ground with an implausible thud, I raced towards the end of the passage. Approaching the brightness of the awaiting street lamp. A...
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Freedom?
Is this for real? Is she really threatening me even at gunpoint? Well there’s only one thing to do… I killed her (Killing a homicide like her shouldn’t be a problem after killing a poor hostage) and got into my car. As I followed down the road I started to think on those footsteps I heard back on that room. Weren’t they after me? Where did they go? That doesn’t make...
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The path that brings you lower.
I grabbed the woman in the black dress by her wrist and quickly pulled her out into the night. The girl began to whimper in fear. I placed the cold barrel of the gun against her cheek and placed my finger to my lips. She was silent. I could see the shadows of the men in the house through the windows. They began shouting as they realized the captive and the temptress were not in the house....