1. An Eerie Night of Madness


    Date: 10/30/2015, Categories: Supernatural, Author: Hannah_Jones, Rating: 10, Source: LushStories

    At first it didn’t bother me. The power went out, no big deal. It was not like this was the first time I had experienced a power outage. “Sure, it will come back on soon,” I said to myself. But then as the minutes passed, it didn’t seem quite so innocent. Something about the darkness that surrounded me seemed sinister. I didn’t know what it was that I was feeling for I could not reach out and feel it or touch it. However, whatever I was feeling felt like the beginning of a bad dream and it was frightening me. I paced back and forth across the width of the living room in my little bungalow, nervously chewing on my fingernails. This feeling of doom was ridiculous. I knew it, but I couldn’t shake myself free of it. It wasn’t like my little residence was the only house experiencing the power outage. All the houses up and down the block were in the same predicament. Looking out the front door, I saw nothing but a dense fog that made this time seem so menacing. Perhaps it was the paranoia of not having a phone. Earlier that day I had forgotten to plug the charger into my cell phone, and now without any power, the phone was useless. It was my fault that Bill wasn’t here with me. He hadn’t been keen on the idea of working a double shift, but I had made him feel guilty. Someone had to stand in for Bill’s partner who ran the night shift so he could be at home caring for his sick wife, and Bill was the only one available. Bill wouldn’t be coming home until eight in the morning, ...
    nearly twelve hours away. Bill had wanted to get a dog, and I told him it was too much bother. Between his job as a trucking dispatcher and mine as a party planner, neither one of us had the time to train a dog and give it the attention it would need. But at a time like this it would have been nice to have the companionship of one now. Stepping out onto the porch I strained to hear something, anything; the sound a neighbor opening a door, people’s voices, but there was nothing. No sound, no movement; just the fog and the deafening silence that made me feel like I was the only living being on the block. Backing inside, I closed the door against the eerie unknown and began pacing once again. The flickering shadows of the candlelight only added to the uneasy feeling of the night. If there only was sound. Those old creepy childhood feelings of being watched was getting the better of me. I knew it was my imagination, but I hugged myself anyhow. If only Bill was home. Feeling childish and immature, I went to sit on the sofa. Within minutes I was up on the floor again. Pacing. “You are being an idiot, Hannah,” I said out loud, just to break the eerie silence. As soon as the words had left my lips, it was like they were never uttered. As if the silence had sucked them into the darkness. I opened the front door for the second time. My car was parked right next to the front porch, no more than twenty feet away, yet I could barely see it. The fog was getting much thicker. It was like this ...
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