Preface
“NOOO!” She shrieked as she shoved him off
her. He stumbled backwards and knocked himself into a table. The lamp fell
shattering. Her face soaked with tears.
She ran through the dimly lit halls. She shrieked out again in pain, glass
lodged in her foot. She stopped briefly, panting, and pulled the shard of glass
out of her foot and continued forward leaving a trail of blood behind her.
Behind
her, he stumbled up to his feet and ran after her. She pushed through her pain
and ran forward to the door. She turned the knob, jiggled it, it wouldn’t
budge. “NOO!” Her shaky hands undid the locks as he plummeted for her. She was
able to kick her foot backwards, hitting him in his appendage dropping him to
the ground.
It
was like a dream, she opened the door and there before her, a rush of freezing
air and the ground cascaded with mounds of snow. How long had she been here?
She put one foot in front of the other and ran hard, she ran fast. He ran after
her, he ran harder, he ran faster. He threw his arms around her, tightly. “HELP!” A foreboding shriek ripped
through her like an electrifying volt. Her screams echoed through the cold air.
The cold wintery night held her screams like a well-kept secret. The dimly lit
house erupted in the night. He dragged her back into the house, slamming the
door shut as her screams bellowed into the cold, rural, darkness.