Alma the trapped doll

 

As the snow falls outside, you can hear the wheels of the doll on the floor stop, the role of the doll's eyes moving. From inside the store you can hear little footsteps of a child walking on the soft snow, then carried on with the sound of chalk being pressed against a wall. As the sound of the chalk being pressed against the wall stops, you can faintly hear little footsteps begin to walk away; they suddenly stop, and begin again, but this time they are getting closer, as if she has noticed the doll sitting and table.

 The dolls in the store notice a girl that looks very similar to the doll, and they knew what was going to happen next. The girl then stares into the window, looking at the doll, she looks away to see if she can get into the shop, but suddenly the doll is gone. She begins to walk away, then the door opens with a loud but slow creek. She slowly walks towards the shop, with every step getting louder and more crunchy on the soft snow. She arrives at the door noticing the weird shape of the window and the bell on top, she notices how many dolls are inside but she ends up locking eyes with the same doll she saw in the window. She begins to calm down and feel safe, walking over to the doll on the creaky floor stepping over a doll on the ground. Out of the corner of her eye she sees that one of the dolls has moved. She thinks nothing of it, ignores it. As she begins reaching for the doll on the shelf she sees a glove laying there on a green sofa, seeming to belong to a child. She walked over to the glove, her feet dragging across the creaky wood floor.

 She meets the green sofa with the glove and stares at it for what felt like eternity, eventually reaching for the glove picking it up. All the other dolls stared at her as she held the glove, She then saw a doll all the way at the top of the shelf missing a glove, she began to climb the sofa and reach for the doll, She grazes the doll with her finger tips, then her palm, then her whole hand and grabs it. She stared at the doll, admired it, she then eventually noticed how dark it was getting outside, She carried the doll with her and heard a little voice saying "help us." She looked around not knowing where it came from, She then looked down at the doll in her hand, and listened closely. Can she hear another voice? "Help us", this time she knew she heard what she heard. She drops the doll and begins to run out, but as she is running the door closes and locks.

 She begins to panic and realize there is no escape, she begins to cry then as she starts to hear more voices this time louder telling her to "let them free". She doesn't know what to do in this situation so she picks up a doll and throws it with all her strength at the window, it shatters into pieces with a loud crash and with the doll flying outside and onto the snowy path. She notices a glow coming from the doll outside. She starts to climb outside and walks towards the doll, out of nowhere the doll dissolves and notices a human figure, a little girl appears where the doll last was and hears a voice that says, "I'm free".