the ghostly shadow
Chapter one: vanished once again One second you saw it, the next you didn’t. She wanted to turn around and leave this strange place, but curiosity got the better of her. The fog seemed to be alive. It danced amongst the trees: smothered, slithered, sneaked, in and out of the branches. The trees lining the road, sentinels of the night, seemed to sway in the breeze, their branches reaching up like tentacles clawing for the sky, yearning to escape the cloying fog. One second you saw it, the next you didn’t. The ghostly shadow vanished once again into the mist. She had come too far to turn back now. Goosebumps prickled on her cold, clammy skin, and she was sure she could hear her heart thumping inside her chest like a fluttering bird begging to be let out of its cage. Pulling her scarf tightly around herself, she stepped forward into the woods, towards the place where the shadow had been. Chapter two: melody of an angle face like a devil coming soon...