The Girl In The Shadow

To her classmates, Clay was background noise. She existed on the periphery of every conversation, included out of pity but left out of the memories. That isolation ended the day a blood-curdling scream echoed through the town, marking the moment Clay ceased to exist in the light. She was never found. Recently, reports of a familiar silhouette lurking in the dark have surfaced. The tragedy, however, is contagious; those who claim to have seen the lonely girl are pulled into the shadows with her, vanishing a mere couple of days later.