Bogleech.com's 2019 Horror Write-off:
The Tail Of Coffee Island
Submitted by Tyler Nakai (email)
The Tail Of Coffee Island
To most of Society, Coffee is viewed as an essential part of life... A way to reverse Zombification if you will. A sense of release. To say there was an entire Island dedicated to this druggish addiction, would surely make you mad to no end indeed....
This TAIL may be the strangest yet. I spelled the word, "Tale," wrong you say!? Nonsense!
It was an ordinary day, in a very boring part of the world. My friends were very aware of my addiction to coffee, and also knew how very much I adored CATS.
So that was the day they shared a very interesting story with me.
Terry: "Hey, did you know there is an island filled to the brim with nothing but Coffee!?"
Larry: "...Y-yeah!! It has every Coffee flavor invented... Even ones no one knew existed before!!!"
Jay(me): "Really, You sure about that? Free Coffee, on some random fake af Island? Let me guess, there is some kinda CATch to it?"
Terry: "No. Unless you count all those missing reports on all the adults, and children that are never seen again. No one ever seems to notice, or even talk about it."
After hearing this rubbish all I can find myself doing in response to this is roll my eyes full circle.
Jay(Me): "So let me get this straight, you are blaming an ENTIRE Island for the potential death of various Adults, and Children? All because they are not around? Did you ever think that maybe they moved away or something???"
Larry: ".... Well.... I heard that the last thing someone sees, if they make it out to the island in the dead of night... is a CAT in the middle of the ocean far from the Island itself. They say you can hear it cry, before you see it. However, anyone who ever dared to venture out to the Island at night, has never come back..."
Terry: "I heard that the last thing they hear before blacking out is the sound of shredding metal..."
Now feeling a bit woozy I try to play it off as if I am not at all fazed by the strange "story," if you can even call it that, That is til they said this next dreadful thing...
Terry & Larry: "If you don't believe us Jay, then... Then we DARE you to go to the Island tonight, alone!"
Pretending I am not at all terrified by this point, I stay very still and silent, pretending to think over the forced concept brought onto me at that very moment.
Jay(Me): "..... Fine. If I manage to make it out alive, I hope you will finally drop this fake rumor once I prove you two wrong. Got it!?"
LATER THAT VERY NIGHT...
Seeing as everyone was asleep by now, All the adults worked long day shifts, leaving them fairly exhausted, and since the children had to sleep when their parents did, no one even noticed, nor cared I was sneaking out through the night...
I was all packed up, and ready to get this investigation under way. I just had to prove how right I was, had to prove how wrong they were. There was no way in Hell that an Island would just make free coffee, and let anyone take it all without money being involved. And Why did they mention a cat, or shredding metals? It just seemed so delusional.... Whatever awaited my arrival, would soon be evaluated eventually.
As I get onto an abandoned boat by the docks, I took note of how stormy it was looking, and proceeded with caution. I don't want to tell the embarrassing story of how I never even made it to the Island, because my boat crashed way before I left our hometown.... I would never hear the end of it. They would claim I didn't go, because I was a big scaredy CAT...
Eventually the boat was dragged in by the waves pulling me forward, into a world of Mystery.
A heavy fog began to surround me, and I was starting to regret coming out this far. What if I get lost... What if... What if Terry, and Larry were right after all? What if I die out here? What then...?
Jay(Me): "G-get a hold of yourself... This is normal. It is normal to feel this way.... Nothing bad will happen... Right?" Trying to keep a nervous smile plastered onto my face, I can finally make out the shape of an Island up ahead.
Being skeptical of this, "Island," I prayed it wasn't that Coffee Island, something I would normally be down for... but somehow.... this was not at all the same euphoric feeling I would normally have... This was dread... The fear of walking into a death trap....
I could smell faint scents of coffee all around me. It was like Heaven on Earth.
Jay(Me): "So far, it seems fairly safe. Really dark.... I don't know why the moon reflected so oddly around the Island coming onto its shore moments ago, but I seem fairly safe here... Oh is that a house!?!?!?"
Upon further inspection, I could see some kind of wooden house up ahead and decided to quietly, but rather quickly make a mad sprint to the house.
Once Inside the home, I was greeted with thousands upon thousands of different types of Coffee.
Jay(Me): "Well fuck... Terry, and Larry were actually right... Though I have not seen, or heard any cats, or shredding metals yet, and if this is as bad as I think it is, I hope it remains that way. I am not ok with Animal Abuse..."
I continue to look around, eventually becoming extremely sleepy. I decide to sample some of the coffee first though.
Jay(Me): "This Mocha Coffee is so goood.... but I have tried Mocha before, and not once has it been this good...wonder what their secret is... Who lives in this house anyway?"
I get the urge to run outside excitedly, so I happily dash back outside the house, just to take in the scenery of the Island. Then I felt something... Something that shouldn't be on an island... As I look down, I notice a giant metal object, equipped with metal blades to each of its sides....
Jay(Me): "H-heh... h-how did that get there...? I bet the owner of the house was trying something new besides making Coffee... hehe..." I gradually begin to get more nervous after thinking back to when Terry and Larry mentioned the sound of shredding metals.
I cautiously make my way back to the house to try and think about this odd finding. Naturally I got more of that coffee while trying to think about what to make of this. Part of me wanted to figure it out, while the rest of me was urging me to gtfo of there asap.
Eventually I become too tired to continue the investigation, which by the way is extremely odd, so I climbed into the bed.
SOMETIME LATER...
Instantly I could hear the sound... A sound of a... c-cat....
Jay(Me): "Wh-wait!! N-No... Nononononononononono-This can't be happening...!!!" Having the biggest panic attack I dash out of the house just in case. It grows quietly but then in the corner of my eye, I could see it.
There was indeed a cat in the middle of the ocean mewing frantically as if it needed to be rescued from the thrashing stormy waves that are now all around us.
Jay(Me): "...... I... I... What do I do...? How did I not hear this awful storm... There must be something seriously wrong with me..."
As the cat continued to mew frantically, I couldn't help but notice, that the cat looked as if it had a smile plastered across its furry face... That is unsettling for sure, but even worse.... You start to hear a metal sound... the sound of metal turning and churning something... the sounds of things being crushed further away, as if it was a burly man chopping down a Christmas tree for his family...
You begin to panic, frozen in place, unable to make anything of this.
Jay(Me): "Is this it? Am I really going to die.... Here?" Falling down to my knees, I start to cry out of pure fear... This was when I felt the ground begin to shake violently. When I came around, I realized that the, "Island," was actually a part of the, "Cat's" tail....
The cat draws near with a menacing grin, though its grin softens as it can tell I really love cats, and coffee, but didn't want the cat hurt. Expecting a happy ending are we? TOO BAD! >:3
I start to realize that that metal thing I saw was a metal turbine... Something normally found in blenders.... This cat knew what he was doing... He was luring people in and well... killing them I suppose... I doubt he will let me go...
As I look up at the cat I realize that the reason it looked as if the Moon was reflecting on the Island oddly was because the Island itself was a blending machine... and it was covered in a glass barrier... I try to plead with the cat...
Jay(Me): "Mr. Cat please let me go, I promise to protect you and never tell anyone about this place or about you... p-please spare my life... I don't taste good at all..." I break out into tears.
The Cat: "I can tell you are PURE of HEART, However, you still came here, and I cannot let you escape. I can see that you were dared to come, no matter, I still plan to use you. I need the finest ingredients to make the finest COFFEE."
I fall silent at what he said. Use me? Ingredients for Coffee???
Jay(Me): "Please don't...!"
At that moment the sounds of the razor blades was getting louder and faster. I looked down and regretted it terribly. The blades drew closer and closer and all I could hear was bones and flesh cracking and ripping apart.... My bones and flesh... The cat simply grinned from outside the blender.
At some point blood splattered onto the blenders walls... I start coughing a bit somehow holding onto what is left of my own life...
Jay(Me-Half Dead): "I... I hope you at least have a good day... I am sorry for trespassing..." The pressure of the blades on me causes certain organs to burst out, one of them being one of my eyes... Things got messier by the minute...
The cat decided to take one organ from me and that was my heart. It said it was too PURE to shred up so it put it into a bottle and pulled out some outdated yellowed paper of some sort as if it was going to write a letter to a loved one or friend.
It waited on the blender to finish. I, still alive somehow watch as the rest of my body gets shredded up before blacking out completely.
The cat proceeded to pour out the bloody and meaty mess into a big cup and puts it's paw and nail into my blood to write out a letter.
DEAR TERRY AND LARRY,
THANKS FOR SENDING ME SUCH A THOUGHTFUL GIFT. MAKING COFFEE IS EXTRA HARD THESE DAYS. DON'T WORRY THEY WONT GO TO WASTE. :3
PS: I WANTED YOU TO HAVE A GIFT BACK! SO I WILL GIVE YOU JAY'S HEART AS A THANK YOU. SHARING IS CARING AFTER ALL MY LITTLE KITTENS! :3
PSS: I AM COMING FOR YOU TERRY AND LARRY AND I WON'T HAVE MERCY WITH YOUR DEATHS. HEHE.. I KNEW YOU DARED HIM TO COME TO ME. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU TWO KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO END BAD FOR JAY OR NOT, BUT I WILL GET YOU TWO NEXT. BEST TO SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST ANYWAYS.
~ <3
The Angler Mer-Cat
The cat folds up the blood written letter and paws it into the jar containing my heart inside, and sets it adrift.
Several Months Later...
Terry: "Larry have you heard from Jay at all? It has been very lonely without him around... no one else wants to play with me..."
Larry: " Not to worry you, but what if Jay took our Dare literally and actually went to that Island...?"
Terry: "........N-No not our Jay... He wouldn't fall for something that dumb would he?" Terry starts to regret ever making that dare so many months ago... and really hopes Jay is alive and well... but something keeps piercing in the back of his brain that that is not what happened to his friend Jay...
Larry: "Maybe we can go to the b-beach to get our minds off of this?"
Terry: "s-sure..."
The two boys walk to the beach so that regrets of Jay being missing so long could leave their minds... however, what they didn't expect to find, was that bottle that washed up on the shore of the beach.
They both look at the later and nearly puke recognizing the blood is from Jay and as they take notice to jay's beating heart in the jar, they puke on the spot.
Watching them from a distance was the cat with an outstretched paw with claws ready to shred it's next victims....
The End...?
To most of Society, Coffee is viewed as an essential part of life... A way to reverse Zombification if you will. A sense of release. To say there was an entire Island dedicated to this druggish addiction, would surely make you mad to no end indeed....
This TAIL may be the strangest yet. I spelled the word, "Tale," wrong you say!? Nonsense!
It was an ordinary day, in a very boring part of the world. My friends were very aware of my addiction to coffee, and also knew how very much I adored CATS.
So that was the day they shared a very interesting story with me.
Terry: "Hey, did you know there is an island filled to the brim with nothing but Coffee!?"
Larry: "...Y-yeah!! It has every Coffee flavor invented... Even ones no one knew existed before!!!"
Jay(me): "Really, You sure about that? Free Coffee, on some random fake af Island? Let me guess, there is some kinda CATch to it?"
Terry: "No. Unless you count all those missing reports on all the adults, and children that are never seen again. No one ever seems to notice, or even talk about it."
After hearing this rubbish all I can find myself doing in response to this is roll my eyes full circle.
Jay(Me): "So let me get this straight, you are blaming an ENTIRE Island for the potential death of various Adults, and Children? All because they are not around? Did you ever think that maybe they moved away or something???"
Larry: ".... Well.... I heard that the last thing someone sees, if they make it out to the island in the dead of night... is a CAT in the middle of the ocean far from the Island itself. They say you can hear it cry, before you see it. However, anyone who ever dared to venture out to the Island at night, has never come back..."
Terry: "I heard that the last thing they hear before blacking out is the sound of shredding metal..."
Now feeling a bit woozy I try to play it off as if I am not at all fazed by the strange "story," if you can even call it that, That is til they said this next dreadful thing...
Terry & Larry: "If you don't believe us Jay, then... Then we DARE you to go to the Island tonight, alone!"
Pretending I am not at all terrified by this point, I stay very still and silent, pretending to think over the forced concept brought onto me at that very moment.
Jay(Me): "..... Fine. If I manage to make it out alive, I hope you will finally drop this fake rumor once I prove you two wrong. Got it!?"
LATER THAT VERY NIGHT...
Seeing as everyone was asleep by now, All the adults worked long day shifts, leaving them fairly exhausted, and since the children had to sleep when their parents did, no one even noticed, nor cared I was sneaking out through the night...
I was all packed up, and ready to get this investigation under way. I just had to prove how right I was, had to prove how wrong they were. There was no way in Hell that an Island would just make free coffee, and let anyone take it all without money being involved. And Why did they mention a cat, or shredding metals? It just seemed so delusional.... Whatever awaited my arrival, would soon be evaluated eventually.
As I get onto an abandoned boat by the docks, I took note of how stormy it was looking, and proceeded with caution. I don't want to tell the embarrassing story of how I never even made it to the Island, because my boat crashed way before I left our hometown.... I would never hear the end of it. They would claim I didn't go, because I was a big scaredy CAT...
Eventually the boat was dragged in by the waves pulling me forward, into a world of Mystery.
A heavy fog began to surround me, and I was starting to regret coming out this far. What if I get lost... What if... What if Terry, and Larry were right after all? What if I die out here? What then...?
Jay(Me): "G-get a hold of yourself... This is normal. It is normal to feel this way.... Nothing bad will happen... Right?" Trying to keep a nervous smile plastered onto my face, I can finally make out the shape of an Island up ahead.
Being skeptical of this, "Island," I prayed it wasn't that Coffee Island, something I would normally be down for... but somehow.... this was not at all the same euphoric feeling I would normally have... This was dread... The fear of walking into a death trap....
I could smell faint scents of coffee all around me. It was like Heaven on Earth.
Jay(Me): "So far, it seems fairly safe. Really dark.... I don't know why the moon reflected so oddly around the Island coming onto its shore moments ago, but I seem fairly safe here... Oh is that a house!?!?!?"
Upon further inspection, I could see some kind of wooden house up ahead and decided to quietly, but rather quickly make a mad sprint to the house.
Once Inside the home, I was greeted with thousands upon thousands of different types of Coffee.
Jay(Me): "Well fuck... Terry, and Larry were actually right... Though I have not seen, or heard any cats, or shredding metals yet, and if this is as bad as I think it is, I hope it remains that way. I am not ok with Animal Abuse..."
I continue to look around, eventually becoming extremely sleepy. I decide to sample some of the coffee first though.
Jay(Me): "This Mocha Coffee is so goood.... but I have tried Mocha before, and not once has it been this good...wonder what their secret is... Who lives in this house anyway?"
I get the urge to run outside excitedly, so I happily dash back outside the house, just to take in the scenery of the Island. Then I felt something... Something that shouldn't be on an island... As I look down, I notice a giant metal object, equipped with metal blades to each of its sides....
Jay(Me): "H-heh... h-how did that get there...? I bet the owner of the house was trying something new besides making Coffee... hehe..." I gradually begin to get more nervous after thinking back to when Terry and Larry mentioned the sound of shredding metals.
I cautiously make my way back to the house to try and think about this odd finding. Naturally I got more of that coffee while trying to think about what to make of this. Part of me wanted to figure it out, while the rest of me was urging me to gtfo of there asap.
Eventually I become too tired to continue the investigation, which by the way is extremely odd, so I climbed into the bed.
SOMETIME LATER...
Instantly I could hear the sound... A sound of a... c-cat....
Jay(Me): "Wh-wait!! N-No... Nononononononononono-This can't be happening...!!!" Having the biggest panic attack I dash out of the house just in case. It grows quietly but then in the corner of my eye, I could see it.
There was indeed a cat in the middle of the ocean mewing frantically as if it needed to be rescued from the thrashing stormy waves that are now all around us.
Jay(Me): "...... I... I... What do I do...? How did I not hear this awful storm... There must be something seriously wrong with me..."
As the cat continued to mew frantically, I couldn't help but notice, that the cat looked as if it had a smile plastered across its furry face... That is unsettling for sure, but even worse.... You start to hear a metal sound... the sound of metal turning and churning something... the sounds of things being crushed further away, as if it was a burly man chopping down a Christmas tree for his family...
You begin to panic, frozen in place, unable to make anything of this.
Jay(Me): "Is this it? Am I really going to die.... Here?" Falling down to my knees, I start to cry out of pure fear... This was when I felt the ground begin to shake violently. When I came around, I realized that the, "Island," was actually a part of the, "Cat's" tail....
The cat draws near with a menacing grin, though its grin softens as it can tell I really love cats, and coffee, but didn't want the cat hurt. Expecting a happy ending are we? TOO BAD! >:3
I start to realize that that metal thing I saw was a metal turbine... Something normally found in blenders.... This cat knew what he was doing... He was luring people in and well... killing them I suppose... I doubt he will let me go...
As I look up at the cat I realize that the reason it looked as if the Moon was reflecting on the Island oddly was because the Island itself was a blending machine... and it was covered in a glass barrier... I try to plead with the cat...
Jay(Me): "Mr. Cat please let me go, I promise to protect you and never tell anyone about this place or about you... p-please spare my life... I don't taste good at all..." I break out into tears.
The Cat: "I can tell you are PURE of HEART, However, you still came here, and I cannot let you escape. I can see that you were dared to come, no matter, I still plan to use you. I need the finest ingredients to make the finest COFFEE."
I fall silent at what he said. Use me? Ingredients for Coffee???
Jay(Me): "Please don't...!"
At that moment the sounds of the razor blades was getting louder and faster. I looked down and regretted it terribly. The blades drew closer and closer and all I could hear was bones and flesh cracking and ripping apart.... My bones and flesh... The cat simply grinned from outside the blender.
At some point blood splattered onto the blenders walls... I start coughing a bit somehow holding onto what is left of my own life...
Jay(Me-Half Dead): "I... I hope you at least have a good day... I am sorry for trespassing..." The pressure of the blades on me causes certain organs to burst out, one of them being one of my eyes... Things got messier by the minute...
The cat decided to take one organ from me and that was my heart. It said it was too PURE to shred up so it put it into a bottle and pulled out some outdated yellowed paper of some sort as if it was going to write a letter to a loved one or friend.
It waited on the blender to finish. I, still alive somehow watch as the rest of my body gets shredded up before blacking out completely.
The cat proceeded to pour out the bloody and meaty mess into a big cup and puts it's paw and nail into my blood to write out a letter.
DEAR TERRY AND LARRY,
THANKS FOR SENDING ME SUCH A THOUGHTFUL GIFT. MAKING COFFEE IS EXTRA HARD THESE DAYS. DON'T WORRY THEY WONT GO TO WASTE. :3
PS: I WANTED YOU TO HAVE A GIFT BACK! SO I WILL GIVE YOU JAY'S HEART AS A THANK YOU. SHARING IS CARING AFTER ALL MY LITTLE KITTENS! :3
PSS: I AM COMING FOR YOU TERRY AND LARRY AND I WON'T HAVE MERCY WITH YOUR DEATHS. HEHE.. I KNEW YOU DARED HIM TO COME TO ME. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU TWO KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO END BAD FOR JAY OR NOT, BUT I WILL GET YOU TWO NEXT. BEST TO SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST ANYWAYS.
~ <3
The Angler Mer-Cat
The cat folds up the blood written letter and paws it into the jar containing my heart inside, and sets it adrift.
Several Months Later...
Terry: "Larry have you heard from Jay at all? It has been very lonely without him around... no one else wants to play with me..."
Larry: " Not to worry you, but what if Jay took our Dare literally and actually went to that Island...?"
Terry: "........N-No not our Jay... He wouldn't fall for something that dumb would he?" Terry starts to regret ever making that dare so many months ago... and really hopes Jay is alive and well... but something keeps piercing in the back of his brain that that is not what happened to his friend Jay...
Larry: "Maybe we can go to the b-beach to get our minds off of this?"
Terry: "s-sure..."
The two boys walk to the beach so that regrets of Jay being missing so long could leave their minds... however, what they didn't expect to find, was that bottle that washed up on the shore of the beach.
They both look at the later and nearly puke recognizing the blood is from Jay and as they take notice to jay's beating heart in the jar, they puke on the spot.
Watching them from a distance was the cat with an outstretched paw with claws ready to shred it's next victims....
The End...?