madness

             "How did they start...your...visions?" the Psychologist sniggered.
             "We had been packing for weeks now, we were ready to leave our old house in the energetic city and move to a lifeless suburban area. I didn't want to depart from my friends and family that lived close by.
             The removal van came and two men stepped out, one tall and lean, the other quite the opposite was a stout and roughly shaved man. Within hours all our furnishings and belongings had been crammed into the van and our car.
             "Come on Stacey! We've not got all day!" yelled my mother from the front yard.
             I took one last glance at my empty room, with bare baby blue walls and closed my squeaky door for the last time. The new people really need to get that fixed I thought.
             I joined my mum and dad in the car out front and we followed the removal van through to the end of the city and through to a quiet village. My mother said the new house was bigger and a quiet village with friendly people would be better than the bustling city we had left behind.
             Yes, it was quiet...too quiet...it was like a ghost town. No one was around at all.
             That night I lay in my bed. My new room was drafty compared to the old cosy room I had left behind. It had an eerie feel to it. I could tell already I was not going to like it here.
             School was a nightmare; I was the 'new kid'. Everyone gave me funny looks all day, some laughed at my clothes, just because us city kids dressed differently.
             I walked home from school, it was quite a good long walk but I didn't want to ride the school bus with the others. I stopped on my way home at a small downtrodden convenience store then walked across the street to an empty park and sat on one of the few benches. A figure drew closer and closer. It had a hunched back so I assumed it was an elderly person. He came over and sat beside me on the bench. The hair on the back
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