The Ghostly Shadow

Rangi The Ghostly Shadow 19/09/18

One early night Ella was walking down to the park, once she was walking
she saw someone strangely, but once she looked again it was gone.
So she started running off home, but once she was nearly home she saw it again. Then…….

One second she saw it, the next she didn’t.
She wanted to turn around and leave this strange place, but curiosity got just better for 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.

Next day she saw it, then next she 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.
Then she started to scream for HELP then once in a while there was someone to come for her.
Then………. To Be Continued……..