Short Story: The Mark
The mark: The human mind often believes what it wishes to believe, even if it means abandoning rational thinking; instead replacing it with fantasies imagined by the wild dreamer. Name: Robert Green Sunday, 12th – Friday, 17th February 2017 Location: Durham In the dead of night, the man had awoke with a peculiar mark on the back of his right hand. The man in question was: Robert Green, he was a man of 24 with no next of kin and had not been in contact with his immediate family for quite some time, nor did he know any of his extended family. He lived alone in a small flat just outside of Durham. The flat is what you would expect from a man experiencing, what could only hoped to be described as, a prolonged existential crisis; a man with no family and his only friend being a queer little black cat that was always found wandering the row of flats yet belonged to non of his neighbors. Robert often looked after the cat and made sure it was fed. Night 1: Robert eyes slowly crept o...