Trevor Cardstrom was returning home from a long day. As he entered his house he smelled… something, something wrong.
It smelled like a decaying teabag and dirt with a hint of something he couldn’t quite put his finger on. Despite this he still entered. His ears were still ringing from the broken elevator. Last year his neighbors upstairs had been messing around and got on top of the elevator, causing it to shift slightly in its shaft. It was just enough to make it scrape, but not enough for the landlord to pay to fix it. If his ears hadn’t been ringing, he might have heard the metallic cling and soft thudding of footsteps from his vent.
He looked through the fridge for something to eat, but it was barren save for a couple of drinks left from a night out with some friends several weeks ago, a half rotted onion, and ⅕ full bottle of ketchup. With a sigh he closed his fridge and walked into his bedroom. In the kitchen behind him a chair creaked as it was pushed across the floor.
He lay down and turned on the TV and started to flip through the channels. In his doorway a slim figure slipped upwards onto the ceiling, bones and joints broken, then crackled and snapped as they ripped back together.
Seeing no good channels, Trevor decided to turn on his games and play some Minecraft on the newest update. It had been weeks since he had enough time and energy to play. Just as he was about to turn on his Xbox, he finally heard the breaking. He whipped his head around, but there was nothing.
He felt a thin, hard knuckle rap his knee. He swung his head back– in front of his face he saw a woman looking back. Her face was vertically stretched just enough to look inhuman. Its eyes, or more rather eye seeing as the other one was black and inflamed, shined a vibrant crimson in the evening sun coming through his window.
A week later, his boss had the landlord open the apartment because Trevor hadn’t been into work. When they entered the bedroom they found his corpse. His neck and head had been stretched up. His eye was swollen and black.
