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._

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