Spooky

It was a dark and stormy night...

The old onion barn loomed ahead, full of cats and bats, and rats.

Broken window panes like a gap-toothed smile bisected the north wall, with the gray evening sky reflected in the glass.

She whistled to the dogs and told her friends goodnight.

Her collar turned up against the ghosts that wisped from the staccato windows, she quickly walked past and headed for home.

A shadow darker than the other shadows slipped out of the barn and silently followed...