The Best Free Internet Games, Free Online Adventure Stories and Free ebooks you'll dig up anywhere.
The ONLY price you'll pay may be in your nightmares.
Free Internet Games
1. The Shadow Being's, 'Punish the Wicked Game Series':
- 'Cage the Kensington Witch Game' (coming soon)
Free Stories & Ebook Downloads
1. Free Story and Ebook- Devolution
2. Free Story and Ebook- 'Til Death Do Us Part
3. Free Story and Ebook- The Confession
4. Free Story and Ebook- The Suit
THE SHADOW BEING
You never really knew what the shadow being was or where it came from. Only that it had a wicked sense of humour and had chosen you out of everyone on the planet to torment. Some people are lucky I guess.You knew it was always watching because occasionally you'd see it out of the corner of your eye – a dark, foreboding and ever morphing shape that had gleaming eyes and a mocking mouth as its only distinguishing features.
Invariably when you turned to look, it would vanish like a wisp of fog on a windy day, leaving nothing but a distant cackling that seemed to trail away forever.
Other times, when it was in the mood to “play”, you would wake from a dream, open your eyes and see its terrifying eyes floating no more than a foot above your face, its body swirling around it like a cloud of acrid, black smoke.
As ominous as its appearance was, its voice was worse - a dry, raspy whisper that chilled you to the core and made the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end no matter how many times you heard it.
How it enjoyed its little games with you. How it relished your fear, anger and pain as it watched you try and solve its riddles, navigate its challenges and avoid the dead ends it threw at your feet at every turn.
“Adventures” it had called them once. “Interesting adventures”.
“Interesting” was perhaps not the best word. “Dangerous”, “bizarre” and “mad” somehow seemed a better fit because some of the things it tasked you to do could only have been conceived in the mind of the hopelessly insane.
“Survive the adventures”, it had challenged, “If you will.”
“If you will” indeed - as though you had a choice. You had to play its little games because it wouldn't be denied. If you didn’t play, you'd suffer at the hands of whatever challenge the shadow being had thrown you, death not being a release but rather a re-setting of reality which allowed you to live and suffer another day.
No – you had to play because the thing had more power than could be imagined. It wasn't bound by time or space and could place you on a far distant star or on earth a millennia ago with equal ease.
Even reality had no grip on it and it scoffed the rules of physics that governed the lives of mortal men. You were sure that it found reality far too dry so created its own, throwing you in front of things that had never existed anywhere, or changing the very nature of who and what you are - all in the name of its amusement.
You knew all this because you'd already survived some of its challenges and faced some of its trials - the memories still haunted you when you tried to sleep at night.
You hear its voice now, scratching at the back of your brain like a rat behind a door and you shiver despite yourself.
“Shall we play”, it cackles slowly appearing before you. "Let’s have an adventure". Its face is the contorted visage of evil and you half turn away from it.
“No, please," you beg, "Not again."
It laughs.
"Why are you doing this to me?” you ask it.
“Doing what?” it jeers, “I don’t do anything. You do it. You choose what you do. You decide your own fate.”
There’s a long, ominous pause and you wonder what's going through its sick mind.
“Decide now!” it commands. “Decide now and decide well.”
Suddenly, dark twisted images from the recesses of its mind leak into yours like dye in clear water, colouring and terrifying you as you see the challenges it presents you today.
“Decide well,” it repeats, but forget all your preconceptions and do not hesitate when making decisions for it will cost you dearly."
The tasks it presents you all seem quite mad. How do you choose from one madness or another? One kind of death or another? You wish you knew.
What will you do!
More free internet games and free stories (including the story of how this horrible nightmare began) will be added soon so check back often!
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