Tommy Northwood: A Short Story

It was nine o’clock, zero hour. The wolves would be coming soon. They will be coming to kill and relieve the mundane, trivial life of Tommy Northwood, a life that started out so extraordinary but turned into an eternal nightmare. Soon the wolves will tear his flesh off of his bones. Soon their mouths will be stained crimson red and their bellies full with meat, human meat. They will end his life in just a few quick moments. Tommy won’t go without a fight however. His legs will pump acid, his fists will be thrown, and his lungs will burn like coals in a blazing fire. But ultimately he would be defeated and he knew it. The numbers will be too great for him to handle, no matter what weapons he writes to himself. After all, this is what Tommy wanted, wasn’t it? Tommy Northwood was born in 1988. When he was just a small boy, he discovered he had a unique ability. He could write whatever he wanted and it came true the next day. If he wrote about slaying dragons, the next day he was slaying dragons down to every little detail he included in his stories. They happened exactly how he wrote them. Naturally you could see how this would be quite exciting …show more content…
Everything and everyone needs to die at some point and he was way past his expiration date. He was the curdled milk leftover in the fridge that needed to be thrown away. Problem was, there was no one to throw him away. There was just him and time and a pad of paper and a pen. So Tom sat down in his chair and picked up his pen one last time. He began to write about the wolves. The wolves that would come tonight. They would come in vast numbers to kill him. Hungry and vicious, they would come to pick him apart. He wrote it out knowing how this would end. It was exactly what he wanted, what he needed. A small smile made its way onto his face as he wrote, just as it did when he was a small boy and first discovered his unique ability. Tom closed his eyes for a couple seconds, and then opened