Dating : A Cabin In The Forest

A short story for your enjoyment

The sun shone through the forest canopy, casting dancing shadows from the leaves in the light breeze onto the ground and the walls and roof of the cabin. Todd and Janiya were laying down in the bushes camouflaged from whoever could be watching them. This was definitely not out of a horror movie, if it was a dark and stormy night and the cabin was painted black or looked run down, they might have steered clear of it.

But this cabin was in immaculate condition, painted pink with yellow polka dot happy faces every few feet. Flowers bloomed in the garden, it was almost like a paradise, perhaps they found the lost Garden of Eden?

Through their binoculars they watched as the woman in the flowery dress came out carrying a tray with a pitcher of an iced drink and three glasses. She placed the tray on the table in front of the swinging chair, poured herself a drink and took a seat. She took a sip and looked in their direction, they were confident she couldn’t see them, they were camouflaged after all.

The woman placed the drink back down on the table and Janiya and Todd heard a voice in their heads, “You’ve been traveling all day, would you like something to drink?” A few seconds pause and the voice continued, “I know you’re out there, you can come out, I won’t bite.”

Her voice sounded so musical, almost hypnotic, like they were in meditation or like a pungi, a snake charmer’s instrument. They felt compelled to join her and so they rose from their hiding place and seconds later joined the woman on the porch.

She spread her arms out and directed them to the chairs, “Sit my children.”

Even though the chairs were not there only seconds earlier, and Todd and Janiya had an urge to run, the trance-like state the woman’s voice had them in, they did her bidding and sat on the chairs.

“Yes, I know you’re not my children,” she said as she poured them both a glass. “I am old enough that you could be eight generations down line of my progeny.”

Todd and Janiya looked at each other, how could this woman be so much older than them? She looked to be ten years younger than they were. They both made to take a sip of their drink the woman poured for them, but before they could, they fell out of the chairs asleep, the woman smiled at them as they lay on the porch.

Sometime later, Todd and Janiya woke up, tied to stainless steel beds, the woman in the flowery dress stood between them. She raised her arms, they now looked like straws, and she smiled again at them, “I only told you I wouldn’t bite, I never said I wouldn’t suck your brains out of your heads.”

Their last horrific site was the woman in the flowery dress pressing her arms to their foreheads, death came in an instant and the woman was satiated.