Challenge
Monthly Paranormal Challenge for April.
You've just spent the last two hours talking to a woman sitting at the foot of your bed. She was dressed in old Victorian attire, and she had to tell you a few things. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 - Let us have it.
The Hag
Her throat rattles from the closet, alerting me it’s midnight. She’s coming. I face away. Melatonin hasn’t kicked in so I count backward trying to flee. Five. The door groans. I shrink into the mattress, paralyzed. My therapist said, "Breathe slowly," but broken fingernails scraping bedrails induce hyperventilating. Four. Crippled limbs crackle closer. She wheezes onto my toes. I retract them. Three. Sheets tugging, I pull firm! Another tug, then Another! Two. The bedframe squeaks. Her weight becomes enormous. I suck empty air. Clicking grows louder. She sniffs at my ears.
One. I have to look…
Jawbone unhinged; She screeches!
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