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her coffee table. Pain ricocheted through her skull. The room spun around her and her eyes drifted shut. Darkness claimed her.
     

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    When Dana opened her eyes she was in her bedroom.
    But it didn’t look like her bedroom. The window was where it was supposed to be and so was the door. But the walls were a different color and the decorations in the room weren’t hers. She tried to move, but was unable to.
    Dana stared down at herself. She was handcuffed to a bed. She still had on the same clothes and her feet were still bare. However, in the middle of her dress there was a large red stain. Blood. Tears filled Dana’s eyes. What type of nightmare was this?
    “This is no nightmare.”
    Dana’s eyes jerked to the corner of the room. Sitting in the rocking chair was a little girl with pigtails. She looked oddly familiar.
    “Who are you?” Dana asked. “And what are you doing in my home?”
    “This is my home and has been my home for many years,” the child rocked back and forth in the chair.
    “Untie me,” Dana told her.
    “Not yet. Not until my daddy gets here.”
    “Listen little girl…”
    “Call me Olivia.”
    Olivia? Wait, Olivia . Like the dirty doll Dana had thrown away. That was why the girl looked familiar. She looked like the doll. She had the same dress, thought it wasn’t covered in dirt and grime. She had the same blonde pigtails.
    “Why do you look like the doll?” Dana asked.
    Olivia smiled. “Because I never got to grow up silly. My first mommy killed me. And the only thing I had to latch on to was the dolly my daddy gave me. Velta, my second mommy, said a spell that would allow me to live through the doll. But Velta was no better than my first mommy. She couldn’t find me a permanent body. And I can’t grow up in this body. I can’t finish what I need to in this body. Velta kept telling me that killing was wrong. She said she gave my first mommy that mixture so she could give birth to a powerful witch. But I’m more than that. I’m more than just a witch. I’m the one who gets to destroy the world. But I have to grow up first. So I brought daddy back. He was the only one that really loved me. Daddy found you. And you’re a good mommy. I watched you with your daughter. You give here toys and you hug her at night and you even kiss her on her cheek without being told too. I want you to be my mommy.”
    “Listen little girl…”
    “Call me Olivia.”
    “Listen, Olivia…”
    “Or you can call me Ayanna. Because I’ll be Ayanna when daddy gets back with her body.”
    “Wait, what?”
    “We’ll be a family. Me, you and daddy. First we have to kill Ayanna and Ayanna’s daddy. Then we can all be together. I can finally grow up.”
    “No,” Dana struggled against the ropes that held her captive. “I won’t let you kill my baby.”
    “You can’t stop us mommy. You’re already dead.”
    Dana stilled and stared down at the red mark on her dress. And then she remembered the knife slashing into her belly. The laughter that filled the room as the little girl cut into her stomach.
    She remembered the sound of a male’s voice saying soon it will be finished. She remembered watching that man leave the house, walking straight through the door like he was a ghost. Probably because he was a ghost. And now, she was too.
    “Don’t worry mommy,” Olivia told her. “I’ll be a better daughter than Ayanna. Just wait and see. We’ll be happy.”
    “Listen Olivia.”
    “Call me Ayanna. From now own, I am your Ayanna. Olivia is dead.”
     

The End

What is the When They Return series about?
     
     
    The When They Return series is a mini-series that follows the undead lives of people who’ve died brutal deaths. They return, some for revenge and some to right past wrongs. However, they never return the same. And no matter how good and just their intentions may be, they always give in to the darkness. The dead is supposed to remain dead. But when they rise, chaos follows. The