STORY STARTER
Submitted by Evelyn Allen Vale
"Two go in, and one comes out" is the start to a dark nursery rhyme that everyone in the town knows.
Write a story which features this rhyme and its tale.
One Will Show Up Dead
_We knew that we shouldn’t have wandered around at night._
**Paths lined by blood red flowers**
_We knew that being together was more dangerous than being alone._
**Pairs drawn by unknown powers**
_We didn’t know where we were going._
**Taken to a cave so deep**
_Didn’t realize what we were doing._
**Where monsters lay souls to sleep**
_We should have._
**Two go in, and one comes out**
_He was with me the whole time, until suddenly he wasn’t._
**Never even hear a shout**
_Nobody heard anything, nobody saw anything. But we all knew._
**With no memory of the night**
_I couldn’t remember what had happened after the flowers reached the cave._
**Only feeling dread and fright**
_I was just left with a sickening dread, was left filled with so much fear._
**Then behind the dusty shed**
_And then one day, just like the old nursery rhyme said,_
**One will show up dead**
_He was found in the same place as all the others, dead._