I’m way up high, terrifyingly high, and it’s foggy. I can’t tell what time of day it is because the sky is gray and the sun isn’t shining. I’m now seeing even more gray around me, as I notice the metal and concrete of what looks like the Sagamore Bridge. My Mom, Dad, and two older siblings surround me and look panicked. Cracks are beginning to erode the columns that hold us over the Canal. They are telling me that the only way to survive is to jump off the bridge on to a raft that floats hundreds of feet below.

Im feeling afraid. One by one, they are jumping over the edge, plummeting through the clouds and being blown slightly off course by the wind. They all just barely land within the little boat. Now I am up here alone, and I am supposed to jump. But I am only six! The wind will surely grab me and push me far from my family. I am imagining it carrying me like a wrinkled sheet of paper, and throwing me in the ocean water, miles from my loved ones. I am running out of time on this collapsing bridge, so finally I am doing it.

I’m now lunging off of the steel girder, into the open, with my eyes locked on the tiny target below. Gravity takes hold. I am falling faster and longer than I expected and it’s inducing fear. Something is under the surface of the water. A sudden break forms in the overcast, and yellow sunlight is illuminating a vague black mass lurking ten feet below the lapping ocean. I am going down fast, and the lurking thing is beginning to rise from the depth. A gust hits me from the side, sweeping me towards the mystery. My toes are about to touch the haunting object; its shape distorts as Im trying to see it through the swirling liquid.

Red gums with no lips are frowning and lined with triangular teeth, as a black pit begins to form between them. It’s pointed face is now piercing the surface, and its massive pale jowels become revealed below the grimace of horror. It’s huge, ancient eyes are slowly rolling back into its head. My fear is becoming terror now as a pure white sphere stares into my soul. I am falling directly into the pit of teeth, into the void.