Shadow's Whispers

OUR WALLS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD'S CRIMSON"
"Please help me. The voices... they're in my head, they're everywhere. Make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!!"

Adeline Winchester had just finally secured a job after years of futile job hunting and she wasn't planning on letting go. Not even when the voices started whispering.

"OUR SKIES ARE TAINTED THE GREY OF STORMS"

"They come at night. Emerge with the dark. They're Shadows. Everyone of them. And they Whisper."

She never thought anything was wrong with her. She had a job, she had an apartment, life was good. Until the voices of the shadows kept getting louder and louder still.

"OUR EYES ARE BLINDED BY UNENDING DARKNESS"

"They're whispering now. Like a mantra, they're whispering over and over about a house, a woman, revenge, blood, DEATH!"

Louder and louder, the whispers persisted. Until she SCREAMED. Then, she saw them. She saw the Shadows. Shadows with no forms, beings that seeked retribution. And she was the only one alive who could give it to them.

"OUR TONGUE BRANDED WITH HELLS BITTERNESS"

"The most terrifying thing I ever saw, was a boy's boots, a boy's shadow... and empty space. That was when I first lost my mind."

She had to go back home. Back to where it first started. Someone had to know what she was, what THEY were and why she was the only one that could see them, that could hear them. And she had a feeling... The quiet village of Ohana's Creek might just begin to get filled with bloodcurlding screams and SHADOW'S WHISPERS.

"BUT OUR EARS... OUR EARS ARE FILLED WITH THE WHISPERS OF THE SHADOWS"

Shadow's Whispers

(C) September 2018

TO BE PUBLISHED: 2019

Tophie Star (R)