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Alex was on another of his exciting journeys, driving his car on a dark, rainy and windswept night in a foreign land. He was a video blogger and it was his dream for one of his travelling films to go viral on YouTube. Then Alex thought to himself, he would have made it.
He had his phone camera set up on the dashboard. He was regaling his viewers with his plans for his journey and the kind of people he would meet, as he live streamed. Little blue thumbs and red hearts popped up on the screen giving him the validation he was seeking.
While he was talking, not paying attention to the road ahead, Alex felt a thump as the bumper struck something hard which then landed on the windscreen that cracked and caved in. Whatever Alex had hit disappeared from sight.
Meanwhile the airbag had inflated saving him from serious injury but he was still stunned. The car slowed and rolled to a stop. Beginning to recover Alex looked in the rear view mirror to see a crumpled body lying in the road.
"Oh my God!" He grabbed his camera off the dashboard and quickly opened the door out into the rain. He was soon soaked and his wet clothes and hair clinged to his skin.
He ran towards the body, his feet splashing through the puddles. His instinct to capture the moment on film had stayed with him despite the shock of what had happened. Alex began commentating for his viewers whilst still trying to catch his breath.
"As you just witnessed I've hit someone with my car. I never saw him. Please be alive."
Alex reached out and checked on the man whilst keeping the camera, shakily, aimed at the body.
"Shit, shit, shit! There's no pulse." Alex turned the camera on himself. "I can't believe it. I've killed someone!"
Tears filled his eyes and merged with the rain pouring down his disturbed face.
While he stood there mourning a stranger before his watching YouTube followers, a figure appeared behind him on the screen. Alex's eyes widened in terror as he recognised who was video bombing him. The man who had shattered his windscreen and bounced off his car. The man who'd been crumpled in the road. The man without a pulse.
And now he stood behind him, seemingly alive and yet still pale as death. The man opened his mouth revealing razor sharp fangs. Alex screamed into the camera as teeth plunged into his neck. As thousands of people watched, screaming along with him, arterial blood sprayed onto the screen and the live stream came to an abrupt end.
Happily for Alex, his dream came true as that video became the most watched on YouTube. It had indeed gone viral and Alex really had made it.
THE END
© Andrew J Sinclair
He had his phone camera set up on the dashboard. He was regaling his viewers with his plans for his journey and the kind of people he would meet, as he live streamed. Little blue thumbs and red hearts popped up on the screen giving him the validation he was seeking.
While he was talking, not paying attention to the road ahead, Alex felt a thump as the bumper struck something hard which then landed on the windscreen that cracked and caved in. Whatever Alex had hit disappeared from sight.
Meanwhile the airbag had inflated saving him from serious injury but he was still stunned. The car slowed and rolled to a stop. Beginning to recover Alex looked in the rear view mirror to see a crumpled body lying in the road.
"Oh my God!" He grabbed his camera off the dashboard and quickly opened the door out into the rain. He was soon soaked and his wet clothes and hair clinged to his skin.
He ran towards the body, his feet splashing through the puddles. His instinct to capture the moment on film had stayed with him despite the shock of what had happened. Alex began commentating for his viewers whilst still trying to catch his breath.
"As you just witnessed I've hit someone with my car. I never saw him. Please be alive."
Alex reached out and checked on the man whilst keeping the camera, shakily, aimed at the body.
"Shit, shit, shit! There's no pulse." Alex turned the camera on himself. "I can't believe it. I've killed someone!"
Tears filled his eyes and merged with the rain pouring down his disturbed face.
While he stood there mourning a stranger before his watching YouTube followers, a figure appeared behind him on the screen. Alex's eyes widened in terror as he recognised who was video bombing him. The man who had shattered his windscreen and bounced off his car. The man who'd been crumpled in the road. The man without a pulse.
And now he stood behind him, seemingly alive and yet still pale as death. The man opened his mouth revealing razor sharp fangs. Alex screamed into the camera as teeth plunged into his neck. As thousands of people watched, screaming along with him, arterial blood sprayed onto the screen and the live stream came to an abrupt end.
Happily for Alex, his dream came true as that video became the most watched on YouTube. It had indeed gone viral and Alex really had made it.
THE END
© Andrew J Sinclair
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