The shadow in the corner
Each night as I sleep I wonder what it is that stands silent and solemn in my corner, bathed in shadows. Comfortable in my bed I never look. It is always gone once I awake. It never hurt me, it must be friendly? How wrong I was. Shall I explain, how it came to be in my corner?
I have a balcony from my room over looking the lake below. That is the corner it likes to stand in, on the left, can you see it? It looks a vaguely humanoid to me, it I am not sure. Back to how it came to be.
I had just moved into a new house with my mother, father, little brother and rabbit. I had the attic bedroom because my brother wanted the one next door to my parents room. We had gone out to dinner to celebrate our new home, it was dark when we came back, there was no one else on the roads it looked abandoned.
When we finally got onto the motorway with other cars I was relived for the light, we had taken our rabbit with us because the removal guys hadn’t put her cage in yet, I thought it was just her making a racket it the boot, so did my family. We have a nice car, maybe my parents didn’t hear it. We carried on but I started to worry when the noise carried on ever when I was holding sniffles( the rabbit). It stopped soon after so it was probably nothing. We pulled into the drive way and I ran up to bed, my book was on my bed. I read for a little while but regretted it. When I looked out the window something was disrupting the lake, it was rippling like mad. Something poked its head out. An arm then a leg came soon after emerging a large tall slender man covered in a layer of sleek black. Mum had said not to worry about this it was just some drunken teen having some late night fun, I ignored it. That night was the most horrible of my life.
After I went to sleep I was woken up at 3am drenched in sweat, a large mark down my hip, a scratch, from a knife. I tried to sleep ignoring the red drips on my floor, that was when the foot steps began. Long and heavy coming up the ladder slowly but… I had the only key to the ladder, I got up and ran to my dresser where I kept it, it was gone.
Ok everyone here’s your challenge, write the next bit of the story I will upload the best one, good luck.😀 please keep it scary, don’t make a joke of it.











