The Modifier Monologue

The Modifier

Today is the day; I have out up with this thing for my entire life. I've known it crept behind me, but ignored it. But not tonight, I peered out of my window and saw the thick, dead, and over grown bushes and spotted the familiar purple glowing eyes. I crouched at my bedside and reached under and grasped the end of the titanium bat I got when I was six. I opened bedroom door that creaked as it slowly opened. Every step screamed as I crept down the rickety staircase. My knuckles white as I clenched the grip of the bat, I turned to the back door to find the creature standing in the doorway. It hunched over, it staggered as it tried to stand. Its face showed nothing, the fleshy skin reflected light from its paleness. The hands and

“C’mon come and get me!” I shouted. Maybe it can’t move off the lawn, I thought. I looked down at my hand that had some residue from when he spat on me. I flung it at the lawn and the same dead bushes burst through the ground and dragged it down. I was safe, at least for the moment. The creature’s eyes then turned green. “Oh no,” I mumbled. The creature then lifted up his hand in the air, then the ground began to tremble. Unexpectedly the bushes burst through the ground tying my hands and feet to the ground. I struggled and tried to escape, but I then noticed that the bushes were covered in thorns. I screamed in pain as they pierced the surface of my

Pain then shot back into my legs, I looked down and found that the bushes had again entangled me. “Do you really think that I would let you go so easy?” the familiar voice echoed through the hallway. The bushes then wrapped around my head, arms, and stomach. “Do you remember your mother?” he asked, “Of course you would but what about your father?” I stared and said nothing. “You do, I know I can see it in your face. Well think about the day he ‘disappeared’. Hmm, a day for all of us to remember,” he smiled, “the interesting thing is what you don’t know.” He grabbed the bottom of his neck and lifted it up. He pulled off his mask revealing a familiar face. I stared putting together who this murderous person