Creator's World

  The day is ending, and so is the year 2021. One event stands out for me, and that is my son’s brush with death. Maxi had gone out with his father, but had chosen to stay on the compound to play with his friends. I had my misgivings but I did not expect anything to happen to him. In my mind, I would go out and call him soon. As I engaged in my other chore, I heard the cry of distress. Poking my head out to figure out the reason for the call, I was met with the news that my son had fallen into the well on our compound. Nobody knew how it happened. Quickly, I called his father who rushed to the well. He was helpless, so was I with a ten-month-old baby, and neither of us could swim. We were going to watch our son Maxi drown. I was numb. No tears could come from my eyes. I just couldn’t believe I was going to lose Maxi so soon, when he had not even lived yet. But there was nothing I could do. I don’t remember praying, but I remember regretting letting him stay outside to play. Then

  If you missed any of the previous chapters of BlackMail II... BLACKMAIL II - CHAPTER 1 BLACKMAIL II - CHAPTER 2 BLACKMAIL II - CHAPTER 3 BLACKMAIL II - CHAPTER 4   SHADOWS FROM THE PAST                Zach screamed. For the first time in thirty-six years, he screamed the air out of his lungs.             ‘Stop being a baby,’ the apparition said, his voice sounding like tar, effectively silencing the petrified man. Zach was staring at a nightmare. And the nightmare was staring back at him. That thing had his wife in captivity. But he felt so helpless. So he did what helpless people in movies did: he asked pointless questions.             ‘Who are you? What do you want with us? What are you doing here?’             The thing laughed. That thing laughed! To Zach, it sounded like the burning of dry grass. He could not shake off the sense of dread that hovered all over the small toolshed. Then it spoke: ‘Your sins have caught up with you, man. You thought no one would know the at