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Reminiscing
Written in 2022



The fresh air and just the pure sounds of nature, there is a rice field at the back and forest on the left side of it. It is my first time in this place yet I'm a little familiar, well I've been in a lot of places so I might have seen this before, but I just can’t remember.

We are currently waiting at our meeting place for the others to come before we go to our heading place. Everyone was chit chatting, but I was shocked after looking at them one by one and whispered to myself “Asian ain’t really raisin” . It seems like our last meeting was just yesterday, but four years have passed.

“Run! Run! Run!” someone is screaming.

“What the fudge!”- I uttered “-what sort of prank is this?” I added.

Some of our friends really run away without telling us what exactly is going on. Jean and I had seconds of eye to eye contact with a confused look on our faces and everyone was desperate to find a safe place, still without giving us a hint of what was happening. I went on the road where some of my friends came from and I saw smoke in the clip side which is on the other side. I was curious enough so I looked there. My skin hair starts rising, I get an eerie vibe. There are 3 men that are busy mixing something. It is meat but kinda creepy, it looks like human flesh or maybe because I just watched lots of cannibal, zombies and horror movies. I saw a woman and a man from a small cabin which is 30 meters away from our meeting place. They looked like they were in their mid 40s. The woman looked at me and placed her finger before pursed lips implying to me not to make any noise. I run back to Jean who’s also in a state of confusion.

There is a folk tale that there was an area with a group of cannibal people that just suddenly vanished and no one had an idea if where they did go or if they died or not . I saw my friends running towards the forest, but it was too late for me and Jean to follow them. A man that was a companion of the woman in the cabin seemed to be trying to block our way. Well, I’m not exactly sure I was just assuming because everyone was running. He seems harmless, yet I told Jean...