Karl and Daniel are driving back to their small farm after celebrating Daniel’s birthday when they strike something in the road. Whatever it is lands on the roof of their pick-up truck. Not keen to find out what it might be, Karl floors the accelerator as Daniel leans out of the window. Despite the light from a full moon, nothing is seen on the road behind them. When they arrive home, their relief is short-lived. As Karl turns into their driveway, Daniel disappears out the window of the truck. Karl hurries after his lover, and manages to catch sight of a dark shape flying through the night sky. Dangling beneath it is his beloved Daniel. Before he can call for help, he's knocked off his feet. A minute later, he finds himself in the air, too, held securely in the grip of a nightmarish beast. The best Karl can hope is both he and Daniel will survive the night, but that might be easier said than done.

Out of Light and Into the Night

“What can I do?” he asked once when they were alone.


“I know you can’t do anything,” Daniel replied. “I just wish it was me tasting your lips and sucking your cock. I miss you so much. It’s torture being stuck over here in the shadows.”


The words were like darts piercing his heart, but as Daniel had said himself, he couldn’t do anything about it.


One day Karl woke up and saw that Daniel was still asleep. In the semi-light and silence of their underground prison he stared at his lover and realised that Daniel had become someone he almost didn’t recognise. Tears welled in his eyes as he looked upon the withered features of his lover; he had turned to skin and bone. His ribs were showing, and his skin hung like dough from his arms. There were dark rings around his once beautiful chocolate brown eyes, and his breathing had become loud and raspy.


“What have they done to you?” he sobbed quietly to himself.


Chapter 10