Short Story ~ Two best of friends, are racing through a meadow when one gets hurt and the night takes a huge turn... read more to find out. ~ Btw this was my story assignment for English.

17 year old, Avery Elliot Brockshus moved in with her parents and younger brother to Galveston, a city in Texas. She knew there was something wrong right away. Hand prints started appearing on the walls, on her skin. Bruises, cuts, pains. It's a constant battle between the Hands and the Brockshus'. Nothing will be the same. The dreams seemed like reality, haunting her by day and by night. This place was no place for the Brockshus....

This new path of life that Elise is forced to take turns out horrid. After her parents died she moved in with her aunt, and right away she notices strange things starting to happen. How had the rest of the neighborhood lived with what seemed like hell on earth.