The Little Man - Animated Scary Story

 

In New York Cityhundreds of people pass away everysingle day some die naturally some aremurdered and others take their own livesakin to other light cities around theglobe employees of the medicalexaminer's office are tasked with thetransporting of the deceased from thescene of the death to the city morguewhere an autopsy is performed ordirectly to a mortuary where the coronerhas determined on scene that an autopsyis not necessary this is the story ofone of those workers Sara and a
co-worker from the medical examiner'soffice attend to several call-outs perday sara has struggled with remainingimpartial to what she encounters at eachscene as the removal of a body can be avery grim detail bloody and damagedbodies are bad enough but badlydecomposing bodies are much worse thesevery unique and unforgettable odor andcan often be bloated with maggots thanother insects at the end of each daySara returns to her apartment which isfar from where she has spent most of herday however the scenes of what she haswitnessed are at the very forefront ofher mind on this day as with any other
she enters her apartment and switchesthe light on
she then heats up some food and tries toerase her mind of everything she hasseen while she eatsshe's never too successful at thisthough as her mind begins to analyzeeach and every death one by one thinkingabout the life the person led theirbirth the first day at school theirhappy times and sad try as she might toswitch off she fails you see Sarah's
husband passed away over 12 months agothe pain of this loss is still all tooreal for her and she just hasn't beenable to let it go she showers for overan hourletting the water run over her head anddown her body in a sense hoping that thehot water will take the sting away withit as a cascades over and away down thedrain suddenly the light goes out not
perturbed by this at all she just standsthere sighs loudly and realizes thatthis will be as good a time as any toshut it off and head to bed she fumbles
around in the dark and manages to find abox of matches and a candle she lightsit and slowly carries it to her bedroomgoing through the events of the day inher head one more time and preparing hermind for the next

she goes to bed and has a brokenrestless sleep waking several times withthe images of the dead and the face ofher lost loved one the next day is more
of the same more dead bodies some thathad died naturally some that weremurdered and some that took their ownlives upon coming home again Sarah goes
through her usual routineshe eats showers
and then takes herself off to bedhowever this time as she goes to switchthe light out she senses something inher doorway someone or something isstanding right there she switches thelight back on and it's gone she's frozen
with fear as she's certain that she justsaw a little man standing in her doorwayshe stares at the doorway and calls outnothing several minutes go by she wants
to run but to where she would have to goout that door regardless she can't moveshe can't remember when she last took abreath as she exhales and slowly inhalesagain she notices a hand at the doorwayand then a faceless head slowly comes
into view from the side Sara pulls up
her covers closer to her face as thelittle man enters the room anddisappears out of her view she stares
off into the darkness and then she seeshim slowly coming to you rising up atthe end of her bed she looks closely and
then can make out his face
it is indeed a little manSerra stares back at him from behind hercovers trying to scream but nothingcomes out and he comes closerhe sits himself down in front of her andthen he speaks he tells her not to worryhe won't hurt herhe just wants to talk and over the next
several hours that's just what they dothey talk they talk about all sorts ofthings at life as a child her marriageher husband's death and how much she hasstruggled with her work and her lifesince his passing their conversation
goes on late into the night and by theend of it she finds herself feeling somuch better so much better in fact thatshe sleeps all the way through until themorning for the first time in over ayearher day at work is once again nothingout of the ordinary and when she comeshome she feels so clear and relaxed she
heads to bed and settles in feeling socomfortable and content just as she'sdropping off though she feels thepresence of something behind her shewakes turns and stares closely at asmall envelope on her bedside cabinetthe shocking realization of what isabout to happen to her is overwhelmingshe replays the scenes of death in hermind she now recollect that each andevery one of them had the exact sameenvelope in the room each and every time
she knew she was about to join them shehad made her choice and she regretted ithorribly
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"The Little Man"