by ScarletFang » Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:39 pm
User: Scarletfang
Name: Grimoire (Grim-war/A book of magical spells and incantations)
Gender: Dom Male
Prompt:
In the suburbs of a bustling city lay a decrepit and broken house. Its shutters, splintered and decayed, had long since fallen from the shattered windows that once protected the lives that had lived there. Whatever memory of a true home had vanished years beforehand, leaving behind an empty shell of its former self. An entire wall lay crumbled and covered in vines after a tree fell onto the roof and settled amongst the drafty rafters, it's rotted limbs reaching out in a frozen state of death as the cold winds blew through the abandoned hutch, making it groan in hollowed anguish. Passerby would quicken their step as soon as the home came into view, finding that even the warming rays of the sun did little to subdue the eerie chill of being watched by some invisible force that lurked behind every dirt covered sill or overgrown bush. Rumors had cropped up through the surrounding neighborhoods that the ghost of a child still favors the back most bedroom. Shadows have been reported by a few foolish souls who had dared to enter the yard at night, too shaken to say anything more after their horrifying ordeal. Word spread like wildfire that night saying the grouo had been attacked by something. Something terrifying and otherworldly. They're all rumors, simple gossip amongst the sheep that fear to venture out of their own safe havens, but I can tell you the truth. I alone know what lies in that darkened pit because I've seen it with my own eyes and will never again question the existence of her. Did I mention she's my neighbor?
The night was bitterly cold, the first signs of fall gripped the landscape as everything was blanketed with a thin layer of frost that simehiw made the air crisp and still. I lay snuggled tightly in my bed, reading a book of adventure to escape my commin, ordinary reality. My dog lay nestled at my feet, a hound of great stature and girth that most would think twice before approaching even though she was actually the sweetest thing. I flipped the page when I feel vibrations at my feet. The dog was growling, her brown eyes staring intently into the darkness outside my window as if following something. I peer outside, confused, before drawing the curtains, "Do you not like your reflection? Is that it"? With a heavy sigh I snuggle back under the blankets, ready to delve back into my other world when once again the dog begins to growl, louder this time, aimed at my other window. I sigh and get up to shut the blinds, "You're too hard on yourself. I think you look great with bedhead"! Just as I reach the blinds I freeze as a second sound reaches my ears: a child's laugh. My eyes scan the room and stop on my dog who now stood on my bed with every inch of hackle raised on her mane and back, glaring directly at the closed window. Slowly, with steps as silent as the dead, I return to her side, smoothing down her fur reassuringly. There's an elementary school down the way, I thought, it could be little kids running down the neighborhood like they usually do... at one in the morning... I can feel my heart begin to pound as I reach for the curtain, my mind racing as it tries desperately and in vein to understand what i had so clearly heard. I hesitate, not wanting to stare into the darkness a second time, only to stifle a shriek as I twisted to the sound of someone tapping the opposite window. Whats going on?! I think as my hands begin to tremble uncontrollably. "Go away"! I yell, hoping it would scare off the tricksters, only to receive an answer from behind my back. Two small hands took hold of my arm, their frozen fingers wrapping tightly around my wrist as the breathe caught in my throat. I wanted to scream, I needed to scream, but the unknown touch of the being behind me sealed my terrified shrieks in an instant. My dog whined and pressed herself against the wall, just as terrified as i was as she stared at the entity. I slowly turn to look when a wrenching feeling makes my heart leap into my throat and my stomach drop to my feet. A young girl no older than six or seven stood in the center of my room looking directly at me with a smile full of jagged teeth that pointed in every direction. She giggled, if you could call the distorted grumblings she made giggling, and batted her empty eyes at me from behind matted strands of black hair. "Why"? She snarled before immediately sinking into the floor and vanishing. The only trace of her being the finger marks still pressed into my wrist as I stood petrified with fear. It took a few moments until I remembered how to breathe and my lungs quickly forced air into my chest only to let it out in a broken whimper.
I threw my bedroom door open and ran for the phone, ready to call the police though I didn't know what to tell them. A stranger broke into my house and vanished? A good excuse for them to lock me away in an asylum for sure. I didn't care. I needed someone, anyone, to be with me that night, to tell me itd be ok and that it was all my imagination. My fingertips touched the phone, but I wasn't able to lift it as my gaze focused on a darkened figure slowly shuffling across the street away from my home. They dragged their feet as they swayed from side to side cumbersomely only to stop as a car drove up in the street. The driver didn't stop, the brake lights didn't flash like I thought they would. The car kept going and, to my horror, revealed a figure, dark and looming, standing in one of the broken windows with beady white eyes that failed to blink staring directly at me. The girl was gone and so too, I feared, was my sanity as I locked eyes with the nightmare across the street.
Hope you enjoyed the story! I'm not much into horror so I don't know how well I did writing it xD on a side note this story is partially true in the fact that there is indeed an abandoned house that I live right across the street from and that matches the description above to a 'T'. No ghosts, thank god, but ya never know.... anything can happen come the witching hour this Halloween!!! *Muahahaha*
