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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Edgar Allan Poe.
It was the year of 2009 during monsoon when the weather was prevailing a seasonal change .Kevin a fine hardworking young man , who was 24 at the time was working as a sales clerk. Kevin was a man who was frustrated regarding his monotonous working and lonely life .As an orphan Kevin struggled through his life, living alone and taking care for his needs. Little did Kevin anticipated that one night a petty decision would lead him into experiencing a chilling incident .
Kevin’s place was not far from his office as it was at a walking distance , his place was situated across the street near the cemetery .Every night exactly at 9 pm , Kevin would come back from his work while strolling through the road near the cemetery Kevin saw a strange man with a hammer and a chisel carving a headstone. Kevin thought that the man was a sculptor, It wary him a bit as it was late but Kevin didn’t bother much and started walking his way home. Everyday Kevin would go to work and while coming back he sees the same strange man, carving the headstone at night but that night Kevin stopped for a while and had a glimpse of the strange man, amidst the cold and windy weather, Kevin somehow noticed that the man was bit tall and had long, damp hair ,though Kevin wasn’t able to point out exactly how the man looked but he managed to see that the strange man was wearing tattered yet muddy clothes with ruptured shoes.
Days passed by and Kevin would continue with his monotonous stressful life without thinking much about the strange man. Until one cold night while it was torrentially raining and a fairly strong wind was blowing and gushing and Kevin was feeling a bit under the weather and that night he reached near the cemetery around 10.30 pm ,and it surprised Kevin to see that even in such harsh weather the strange man was standing there carving the headstone. Kevin was suspicious and thought to himself that the strange man might be unhinged as the man didn’t have an umbrella or a trench coat to cover himself in such a weather .Kevin was interested to see what the man was carving and on that particular night Kevin being in his sound mind made a decision to walk to the strange man and maybe give him a helping hand if he needed .Kevin headed towards the strange man and as he was approaching, Kevin got a strange and funny smell and as he approached Kevin saw that the strange man didn’t even move an inch to look at Kevin and was continuously carving .And when Kevin somehow gathered his courage and asked the strange man “Why are you carving the headstone every night and even at such harsh weather “?
The strange man without looking at Kevin replied- “They spelt my name incorrectly ".
© Delufie
Edgar Allan Poe.
It was the year of 2009 during monsoon when the weather was prevailing a seasonal change .Kevin a fine hardworking young man , who was 24 at the time was working as a sales clerk. Kevin was a man who was frustrated regarding his monotonous working and lonely life .As an orphan Kevin struggled through his life, living alone and taking care for his needs. Little did Kevin anticipated that one night a petty decision would lead him into experiencing a chilling incident .
Kevin’s place was not far from his office as it was at a walking distance , his place was situated across the street near the cemetery .Every night exactly at 9 pm , Kevin would come back from his work while strolling through the road near the cemetery Kevin saw a strange man with a hammer and a chisel carving a headstone. Kevin thought that the man was a sculptor, It wary him a bit as it was late but Kevin didn’t bother much and started walking his way home. Everyday Kevin would go to work and while coming back he sees the same strange man, carving the headstone at night but that night Kevin stopped for a while and had a glimpse of the strange man, amidst the cold and windy weather, Kevin somehow noticed that the man was bit tall and had long, damp hair ,though Kevin wasn’t able to point out exactly how the man looked but he managed to see that the strange man was wearing tattered yet muddy clothes with ruptured shoes.
Days passed by and Kevin would continue with his monotonous stressful life without thinking much about the strange man. Until one cold night while it was torrentially raining and a fairly strong wind was blowing and gushing and Kevin was feeling a bit under the weather and that night he reached near the cemetery around 10.30 pm ,and it surprised Kevin to see that even in such harsh weather the strange man was standing there carving the headstone. Kevin was suspicious and thought to himself that the strange man might be unhinged as the man didn’t have an umbrella or a trench coat to cover himself in such a weather .Kevin was interested to see what the man was carving and on that particular night Kevin being in his sound mind made a decision to walk to the strange man and maybe give him a helping hand if he needed .Kevin headed towards the strange man and as he was approaching, Kevin got a strange and funny smell and as he approached Kevin saw that the strange man didn’t even move an inch to look at Kevin and was continuously carving .And when Kevin somehow gathered his courage and asked the strange man “Why are you carving the headstone every night and even at such harsh weather “?
The strange man without looking at Kevin replied- “They spelt my name incorrectly ".
© Delufie
