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The Girl of the Dark Room (or "The Girl of the Dark Bedroom") is a short horror story written by the unknown author, Cyrus. The girl of the dark room

''Once upon a time, there was a young girl, who lived in a very dark bedroom. She had the windows painted black and the curtains always closed. She had her door locked. Even the keyhole was stuffed with an old cloth. She was sitting there alone in the corner next to her bed. A dark room with only an old light bulb hanging naked. On and off it goes every single second, as the tall man plays with the switch. On the door, only three knocks every minute. The old pale neighbor wants to come inside. The closet door creaks as it barely opens once every hour. It will creak again when it closes for one more hour. The shadow is still there at the corner, watching her. The dolls on the shelf always stare at her, no matter where she is. When the clock shows midnight and the cuckoo screams continually for a long minute, the porcelain doll heads twist thrice. The little boys giggle for ten minutes as they play in the darkness under the bed. It's time for her to sleep again. She gets in the bed and the old lady sitting in the chair next to her scratches the window a few times. She looks at her self in the mirror across the bed. Her reflection gets out from the mirrored bed and the mirror she approaches slowly. She then starts singing a lyric-less lullaby as the music box with the ballerina starts playing on its own its creepy music. The song goes on and on and on until the young girl falls asleep. Then the Dream-keeper welcomes her to her nightmare. On a chair she sits in the middle of nothingness with only a hundred eyes in front of her staring and that beautiful lullaby in the background. As she wakes up she notices a nice but yet boring smell. On the table next to her there is a tray with a bowl of soup, made of unknown ingredients, together with the usual piece of paper with only one word written, in a forced-seeming way: Eat. She eats the soup made from the mysterious cook she has never seen. And thus, once again she sits in her corner on the floor and waits for time to flow again, as she lives, never-changing, in her twenty-four-hour loop. Will this madness ever end for her or is she cursed? Who knows.'' by Cyrus

Story --- The story talks about a young girl (the main character) that lives in a dark room, as the title suggests. In that room though, the girl is not alone, but she lives with other mysterious creatures that have their own roles in the story. Those creatures do not appear to hurt the girl physically. The whole bedroom the girl lives in, as well as the creatures and the actions that take place in that room, are all part of an endless loop in time. Everything happens the same way, the same twenty-four hours. The girl, probably, keeps her memories of each day and that's what makes it even creepier. We don't know, from what the story says, how the girl feels.

Meaning --- The whole point of the story, besides being creepy, is to make you imagine and think of your self as that girl. How would you feel if you were in her position? Would you be able to handle going through the same creepy situations again and again endlessly? Would you be able to keep a clear mind or would you get paranoid? The last question in the story hits the reader. The reader doesn't just read the story now. The reader must give an answer, but the reader doesn't know the answer to that question and neither does the writer.