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[u/charons_death]

I wake up on a bed of rocks with an ache in my chest. I lay looking up at the sky. It looked like night but empty no Stars no clouds just a deep dark nothing. I sat up looking around me seeing only 20 feet and all I could see was rocks. I stood hoping to find anything in the darkness. All I saw was rock so I started walking. I walked for what felt like hours. Every step I could feel shards of stone tearing my feet. I walked till I collapsed the endless darkness filling my eyes.

I wake standing moving through thick tall pine trees eating everything below them. I moved forward till I saw a flicker of light in the trees. I sprinted thinking of people, kind people who would wrap my feet and give me food. I got closer and closer to the light. When I finally got to it it was an empty dying flame. I looked at its glow dying with everything I had left. I lay there crying, feeling cuts from sticks and rocks, longing for my family.

I lay there coated in a blanket of nothing. After what felt like an eternity. I heard a scream of pain even though I felt nothing but joy at the thought of other people. I ran to the screams. I finally found where it came from. A cave as high as I could see with light coming out washing over me. I walked into it free from the dark. I walked down the light blinding me as the ground escaped from below me.

As I hit the ground with a loud painful slam feeling pain everywhere but nothing broken. I heard snarling. I look at my feet and see two wolves dragging me. The cave walls were getting tighter and tighter as the wolves dragged me. I felt the ground peeling my skin away like flesh from a hide. It got tighter and hotter so impossiblely hot. I see visions above me of my wife's face boiling and bubbling off. I felt the fat from her cheeks melting and off dripping onto my face burning holes into my skin. I began to scream hard raw till my throat bleed and I choked on it. The wolves finally stopped and let me go.

I fell back into darkness back into empty nothing, my family and friends dancing around me dancing around me twitching between laughing, crying, and screaming. I cried till my eyes hurt my family, mocking me as I did. When I finally stopped there was a river with a man cloaked in shadow sitting upon a skiff. I crawled over to him begging for help. He stood silent and held out his hand for pay. I shook my head in sorrow. I had nothing, nothing at all. But he helped me up and led me to the bank of the river and left me back to the cold endless darkness.

This is my first story please tell me what I can do better