Echoes In The Darkness Novels & Stories

“It's not like that. It's not something you can get rid of. It's part of me; it's my other half. It's who and what I am. Don’t you see, I am the darkness! To get rid of it would be to get rid of me. I'm no good for you. I will only cause you pain and suffering. I am the darkness! I'm the monster everyone's afraid of. I'm the beast in the dark that children have nightmares of. I am the evil from the depths of hell and will only snuff out your light, little angel. You and I can never be together!” He said with a deep and rough voice. Smoke seeped from his body again, and a dark aura rose from his body like a shadow looming over her.

His eyes reddened with grievance as he nodded and said he could do it, then turned to get his phone. But I could not hold on anymore. My vision went black, and I collapsed. When I woke up, the sky outside was the color of dusk. I was lying in a hospital bed. Marissa stood by the window in a white shirt and jeans, her back to me. For one moment, I was in a daze. She looked like the girl from ten years ago. Back then, we had napped in a cramped rented room until evening and slept through a rainstorm. She turned around, her eyes bright with excitement.

[The Echoes of the Damned] The darkness in the gallery was thick enough to swallow sound, yet every noise felt amplified, vibrating through the soles of Ivy’s feet. The rhythmic thud-clink of metal against stone grew louder with every passing second. It was a mechanical, dragging sound—the gait of someone whose body had forgotten how to move without the weight of iron.

Everything. I took one step forward and— Darkness swallowed me instantly. The doors behind me shut very quickly… I couldn’t see anything. It was just an endless loop of darkness… “Hello!!” My voice tore out into the hallow space… and it echoed right back at me. “Anyone here?!” I yelled out stepping further into the darkness. Still nothing..just the echo of my voice. Then-— From underneath me.. a green flowing circle formed up. What the— It began to glow up brighter and brighter…the light growing and surrounding me entirely.

A kind of dark melody with multiple meaning within each simple word and starting line. “Tsk!” he smirks. Kind of having the grasp of the moment that he is within. As he is now standing like a fragment, a spirit that no one can see, nor the most powerful one feels his presence. Into the abyss that is neither a dream nor anyone’s abyss. But a fragment of the impending warning that could be a danger. The words once more echoes, but clearly in that following moment. “One by one everything will come into a fruitful rhyme.” As a melody is heard, echoing into the farthest distance and accompanied by the dread towards the darkness that surrounds everything beyond the light, and the shadows that lurk

My vision was slowly turning dark until it was completely dark and I suddenly felt numb as if this was all just a dream. “I’m sorry it had to go down this way,” was the last thing I heard as darkness embraced me with welcoming arms.

Some part of her had always known she would end up here. Then Jax's portable scanner lit up on the crate they'd dropped it on. One line glowed blood-red. Connection re-established. New loop initiating. Echo's voice slid into their minds like silk over a blade. Soft. Certain. Completely unbothered by the running or the rain or the fear. You ran. But you brought me with you. The bulb overhead flickered once, twice. A long pause. Then steadied. And somewhere in the dark corners of the warehouse, in the space between the cold metal walls and the sound of the rain, something new began to breathe.

Memory's Depths As they sank more into the forgotten depths under the destroyed Empire, the darkness engulfed them. The sound grew louder in the little hallway as Zara's every foot reverberated against the chilly stone walls. The still air pressed down on her chest, making her breathe in quick, shallow gasps. The dim glow from the phosphorescent stone walls was the tunnel's only source of light, creating strange shadows that moved and flickered with every shift.

The words echo, a brief vibration in the air that shimmers and fades to a taut silence. "Come on then. Make up your mind. I'm here. I'm playing your game. What do you want?" Still, there's no reply, but... ... there... ... in the darkness, something moves... ... something clicks... ... and lights blaze.

Something worse. Something hollow. Something rewritten. Their eyes stared blankly forward, pupils flooded with silver, their bodies thin threads of light suspended inside the spirals like captured ghosts. “No,” she choked, reaching toward them. “No—no, please—” “They are echoes,” the darkness said. “Caught in the place you broke.” “I didn’t— I couldn’t—” “You already did.” The spirals narrowed— And Kael’s mouth moved. Not like Kael. Slow. Mechanical.