China Doll
by Dorothy Dukes

The woods are dark. The wind is very cool. She wonders why she is so cold. Shaina blinks twice, then three times. Something is not right. She tries to get up, and immediately falls back to the wet ground. She has become startled now. Shaina starts to realize her legs are very weak and she has a sharp pain on right side abdomen. Then she panics, "I smell burnt grass."

As she walks through the trees, she hears the wind whispering in her ears as it passes by. Shaina walks blindly through an unforeseen terror that has occurred. "What's happening?" "Where am I?" She tries to look around, and no one is there. Nothing is there. She cannot see much of anything but trees and limbs blowing in the midst of the night. Then, Shaina starts to smell and distant order on her body and her heart starts to race.

Again she says to herself, "Where am I?" Shaina woke up in a strange place. Nothing is right. There is nothing here to help her recognize her atmosphere. But, her memory is coming back fast. She knows she was leaving the gym and suddenly a forced hand went around her back and mouth and then.......................

Suddenly, Shaina here's a crack on a branch behind her. Her heart starts to race again quickly. "Oh no!" Everything starts flowing through her head. Shaina starts to realize and understands why she is left alone in the woods. She says allowed, "I was kidnapped." All the while of her speaking, her pace quickens. "Someone is behind me", she says. Shaina starts to run, but she rapidly falls back into place, her side is bleeding and her legs are weak. She stands up again, this time with force. Shaina starts to jog. All awhile she starts to remember what happened...

I was coming out of the Gym, and I was at my car. I saw that I had gum on my keyhole of my car door; I tried to jam it off with my keys when they fell. Swiftly Shaina hears more rapid steps, and then someone yells, “Where are you!" Shaina streaks with fear. The first thing that comes to mind is to hide. Shaina sees a log overlooking the falling branches where her foot lies. She quickly run and jumps down into the open log. The footsteps are closer now. "I know you are around here somewhere. When I find you, I am going to continue what I started. You are my china Doll."

Shaina starts to feel she is about to cry. All of a hasty moment, her memory comes back. This guy grabs me, pulls me into the other car beside mine. He forces a rag over my face and then I wake up on a wet ground with burnt grass everywhere; and he is forcing his way inside me while telling me, "do you like it, do you like it?" "There you are!" Shaina screams! "Now let’s finish the fun!" Before Shaina knows it, she picks up one of the loose branches and swings, and swings, and swings. There is blood ubiquitously. The man drops down to the wet ground. Blood pouring down his face wetting up his stained shirt.

Shaina jumps up to run but realizes he has fallen on her injured leg. She tries to pull him off and he grabs her arm. The stranger yanks Shaina to the ground and tries to pull the remaining torn clothing from her body. He pulls down his jogging pants and tries to force himself inside of her. Shaina continues to move away while fighting this unfamiliar person off her, but he is so heavy to her small frame.

There is blood everywhere on his face. Shaina is trying to recognize the person, but there is blood all over his face from the blows of the branch. Shaina screams! The stranger laughs and says, "Do you like it, and do you like it!" "Tell me you like it" Shaina tries to struggle away. The stranger grabs her by the nap of her head and yanks it compulsory to the wet ground. Shaina moans out loud and faints.............

While the stranger tries to remove the torn clothing from Shaina's broken body, he realizes she has stop moving. He smiles and touches her face. "You are beautiful; I will call you my little China Doll."

Before the stranger could get the butcher knife out of his pants, he hears a gun shot behind him. Two Police Officers grabs him by the neck and handcuffs the stranger. The third Police Officer runs to Shaina's rescue. "Hey Sargent, she looks like she is still alive, call for an ambulance." The third Officer touches Shaina's neck, and she winces. "She is coming to, hey lady this is Sargent Dennison, can you hear me?"

Shaina tries to look toward the voice but realize one of her eyes is closed shut. The officer tells Shaina not to move, relax and there is an ambulance on its way. Shaina tries to smile, but no reaction occurs. Sargent Dennison tells Shaina, "You are one lucky young lady to be alive. You were about to be the next monument victim of the China Doll Killer"......................