I find myself alone in a frightening building at the dead of night. I am
filled with an eerily familiar mixture of fear and rage. I reason that I could
either curl up on the floor and whine pathetically or take responsibility for
my inner anxieties and act with certainty. I decide on the latter, and call
out the name of my personal demon and psychic tormentor. I repeat
this shout with increasing volume several times, until he appears, reeking
of evil and smouldering foully. My fury overcomes a sudden feeling of spiders
crawling in my duodenum, and I launch myself at the demon, screaming an
assortment of obscenities, pummelling him viciously. As I punch, he seems
to diminish in size. I continue to beat him, until there is nothing left of
him except his Doctor Marten boots, which I fling from the window into the
night with a callous laugh.
Subsequently, I am unable to sleep at nights, as I worry greatly that there may
have been something of the demon still left in the toes of the boots. I
attempt to find them, but the frightening house is not on any street in my
town. Weary now from sleeplessness, I wait in my room for the demon to return,
and regret deeply having behaved so decisively.
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