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.

The Prophecy

Two go in,

And one comes out


The forest

Black and dead


Moonlight shining down on the burnt branches

The branches that tell the story of the forest


Two figures stand by the edge

Staring into the spiraling abyss


Darkness spread in front of their feet

Beckoning to them


“Come little children, come!,

Don’t run away, don’t run!”


Slowly the littlest strays toward the edge

The oldest doesn’t pull him away in time


In the old mansion

All the lights turn on


The door creaks open

Someone cry’s


“Mama papa!

Let me inside!”


Parents rush to the despaired child

A cracked mind falling into the darkness


Shadows creeping into subconscious

Because,


Two went in

And one came out

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