As I walked into the haunted costal cave, I saw: an abandoned apple-coloured apron; a pair of worn shoes and a cobweb-ridden box. I heard a hollow howl; the eerie noise was coming from upstairs. As I came outside, it was now pouring with rain and pitch black, I saw it. The thing lurched towards me, and just as its teeth reached my skin, I knew that he had lied.

“ Always and forever. “ Those snarling words still still stick in my mind, sixty years later. They told me that it would go, years-end. As if. So as I slump into the corner of the cave once again, I recall the words they told me, recall that I’m never going lucky enough to be rescued from this place again…