Dark Days
By Erick Alden
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Dark Days is a collection of short stories and poems that explore and expose the true darkness that lies dormant within every one of us.
Erick Alden
Erick Alden is a horror writer and YouTuber.
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Dark Days - Erick Alden
Dark Days
By Erick Alden
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You must bury your inner demons, or they shall bury you.
- Erick Alden
Table of Contents
1. Dark Days
2. I lost my family to the deep web
3. I’ll Have My Revenge
4. My 16th Birthday
5. The Poignant Promise
6. What Teachers Really Do Over the Summer
About the Author
Dark Days
Dark days dreadful indeed,
Promiscuous peasants planting their seed,
Foreign to peace with galvanized hate,
With doubt in ourselves we submit to the great,
We say we are free but tend to conform,
Hand you a noose if you're out of the norm,
We proliferate lies and refute the truth,
Give up our ambition to feel aloof,
Please oh help us powerful god,
Stop those who lie, kill, and maraud,
We have succumbed to infinite darkness,
He may have created us, but has surely departed
I lost my family to the deep web
Allow me to just preface this by saying that I never used the deep web for anything too bad. I never bought drugs. I never stole movies or music. Hell, I rarely even looked at porn. I had the most generous wife you could ever imagine. I honestly didn’t need porn with a woman like that in my life. I had always been fascinated by computers but the town I grew up in was a small hick town, if that. I remember hearing about computers and the internet, and the idea of it blew me away. Being able to access information from anywhere in the world was amazing, and it astounded me that it wasn’t embraced and pursued by more people. So, I not only lived in a technology desert, but my family wasn’t exactly rich either.
My mom slaved away at a large corporation where she was paid much less than she was worth. My dad worked various odd jobs, but always invested most of his time into the local church. He was a stereotypical bible thumper, and as one might expect, I grew to resent the religion. I always felt like religion was a one-way street. They expected me to pray to and serve some imaginary deity in the sky and all those who don’t would burn in hell. My interest in history led me to the realization that every religion was similar in that regard. And that, for me, was enough to dismiss them all.
Thankfully they raised