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it seems to be my focus today XD mad saturday, yes-sir-ree-bob.
This is actualy from an old ghost story i wrote in the mid eight grade, about a gentleman I randomly named Elijah.
Eli was a young man, a poor man, and a good man. He worked as a gardener and a dog walker, making most of the money for his parents, his sister, and his grandparents. He was drafted to fight the Great War in Germany in 1917, and left with a bright attitude, excited to come home and be a war hero.
Eli was only one of two to come home in his unit, and had witnessed unspeekable things in the tranches. When his family came to meet him, Eli was led by a nurse who said he hasn't spoken a word for 2 weeks.

Eli was undergoing shell shock, and was constantly shivering, paranoid, and refusing to talk. When he began to sense his family wasn't happy with his behavior, he began to constantly tap his fingers to his thumbs, and wanted to be held. The only time his voice was heard was when he cried or laughed.
His family saw him as a burden, too big of one to handle, they dropped him in the closest mental hospital, not giving the doctors his name or information.
The doctors saw hims as an easy case, and tried simple therapys. Eli's symptoms inclined.

The doctors triend everything. Eli was shocked, tied, locked in cages and boxes for days on end. He was thrown into extremely cold or hot showers or baths for long periods of time, and tried the most primitive forms of treatments to try to drive out his madness. He became to insecure from his abuse, that he was reduced to having the behaviors of an animal, and was looked upon as just that.

He died from his treatments, and of a broken heart, at the age of 23. His soul had wandered around the hospital, and long after it was abandoned in 1962. Visiters to the hospital (tresspassers) often report they hear crying when they step in or write graffiti on a certain room. But if someone enters and happens to be spiritual, leaving something there that wasnt before, they hear a cheerful young man laughing down the hall

hope u like :3
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EngleArtist's avatar
That's a chilling story, and the illustartions wonderful as always.