Spoopy Tales - Halloween Contest Prompts

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Prompt 4: Write a 150-200 word story inspired by this Video. (Video posted in media)

Amongst the stars of the inky night, beneath a flickering amber glow of a street light, a stuttering ghost of her breath glided into the cold air manifesting the heavy panicked gusts of fear she eminatated. No matter the many times the street had been travelled, she had no idea where to go, where to run and from what she fled. Survival’s creed was a tittering see-saw; the weight shifting from fight to flight that obscured her decision. 

Useless sobs crumbled against her whimpers as the disembodied voice croned her name in a menacing blood curdling whisper that was everywhere but never one place.

“What do you want? Please, what do you want?” she wailed; defeat wrapping its aura about her. 

Through the dense voices, one word could be heard.

“You.”

With renewed stamina, she sprinted against the cemented pavement in hope to escape the sensation of hands reaching out to snatch her away. Just when there was silence, and feeling as if her lungs were raked raw, she stopped inches from a water-filled pothole. 

Suddenly, she was sprayed with water as a black gnarled claw shot up from the pothole and latched onto her ankle; dragging her down screeching.