It was a dreary winter night in Oceana, West Virginia. Tucked away, warmly, was a man by the name of Michael. You see, Michael was a fairly brave individual that was very rarely frightened. He was sort of a leader to his peers and those around him by showing his courage and virtue. As he lay tucked away in his comfortable bed, he heard the strange sound of footsteps in the snow outside. Dismissing it as possibly an animal or the wind, he paid no attention to it and went back to watching his television show. It was only after hearing it once more that he grew immensely curious and decided to check it out. At first, he opened his window and peered outside where he heard the strange sound from but saw that the ground was completely undisturbed. Given the fact that it was negative five degrees outside and in the middle of a two-week long snowstorm, he did not notice any sign that someone or something was outside. Once more he dismissed the sounds, closed his window, and covered back up in his warm bed. Sometime later that night while Michael was on the verge of dozing off to the sounds of the snow falling and the television playing, he heard the footsteps again. At first, Michael did not realize what he was hearing. Only this time it was not just footsteps. There was the faint sound of a feminine child-like voice calling his name from below his window. This startled him at first because there were at least twenty inches of snow outside and the temperature had dropped to
We begin on a dark night with wind whistling and crows cawing. It was fall of 2003, Mike and Erin were biking together. Suddenly they see a shadow in the distance and turned their bikes into a scare. Their Spines chilled and faces froze with fright. They fell down the hill that no one ever dares even lay eyes on. Stories told that there was a woman who died from wood chopping a tree that fell on her. Some people say you could even see her ghost. “Mmmm-ike? Are you ok?” Erin mumbled. Mike groaned in much pain. As Erin weakly stood up, He saw something hovering above Mike. “Mike I need you to listen to me” Erin exclaimed. “Don't move” Mike turned around and gasped! Above him was a stick tied to a tree. “Erin, are you messing with me?” Mike complained.
My eyes open. A crisp, cold wind blows through my my window and hits my face.The whistle of the fall air flows through one ear and out the other. It was quiet. The sound of nothingness was fiercely stopped by the blaring on my alarm clock. October 13, 2015, at 9:30 AM, I roll over and hit my alarm clock, The repetitive sound disappears. I throw my sheets to the side and step onto the cold wooden floor. I grab a pair of
A soft blanket of snow fills the road like an artist preparing a fresh canvas waiting for imagination to flow from his paint brush. Laughter fills the path as a group of children walk home from school. One of the children’s names was Catherine. She was basking in all the wonderful wintry-wonderland scenery. Instantly her feelings of awe and amazement were replaced by fear, replaced by petrifying fear, they were replaced by really, really, really petrifying fear. In the woods, a dark figure loomed about and then vanished. Alarmed, she pointed to where the dark figure was before it vanished. Almost at once she asked herself was this real or just a figment of her imagination? You decide.
The cold air brushing up against my bare skin, the soft flakes of snow landing on top of my head. "must keep going" I thought, "just keep going". My vision was beginning to get blurry, white patches began to show up on the bottom of my feet. The blurriness was getting so bad I stopped my run and began to waddle back and forth on the trail. My legs give out, my knees collapse under me and I fall onto the soft piles of snow on either side of the trail. The long beautiful trees dripping with snow looked like they came out of a fairy tale, the beauty was almost unrealistic. My eyes drift close and my body shuts down from the cold. Just before my eyes are completely shut I see the creature running across the trail its very hairy and has a long
I sat on my bed looking out my window, until something came whizzing by. I jumped off my bed with an awkward bounce and ran downstairs. As I yanked on the door handle, I realized it had snowed last night. “Too late for that,” I muttered under my breath as the door finally decided to open. I ran straight towards the object from the sky, and as I reached for it, something terribly wrong happened.
I awake to a snowy morning filled with excitement, for it’s the beginning of the last week of school before winter break; December 19, 2011. I slip on a pink sweater with snowmen on it and walk into the living room. As I’m walking, I witness my mom letting my dog outside. The ghost makes her way through the snow, her fifteen year old body trembling; for she can’t hear or see the white mist falling around her.
“Uh, yeah! Sure!” When I knew I was l alone I ran all over town looking for the source of the snow. I finally found it at an abandoned warehouse just outside of town. I waited a couple of seconds before saying something but before I could, someone spoke.
This morning was crisp with a wisp of new autumn air flowing through the window where Jeremy Smith slept peacefully in his bed. He dreamed of the fall leaves swirling through the air, but then something changed. Jeremy tossed and turned becoming cold in his sleep as he could sense something near. Jeremy was awake now, but didn’t open his eyes for he was afraid of what would stand in front of him. He became ever colder as he heard it come closer. Once he was shivering with goosebumps he opened his eyelids just for a peek.
The night was too freezing for anybody to be out. The streets were calm and quiet, but every now and then, the silence was disturbed by the loud
As terrifying as it was, it was all the more scary when a limb shot out of the evergreen and shoved us away. We tumbled into the down comforter that was the soft, off path snow. It was abnormally soft, like a cushion to land on, and it all seemed to be as cold as dry ice. The tree was still. Murphy helped me take off my skis, as I did her. We struggled to grasp what had just happened. Walking to the other side of the tree, our confusion matched our curiosity. We stalked slowly to the other side. When our small bodies made it through the sickly thick snow, we thought our eyes deceive us. It was in fact, not a tree, but a human wearing a brown snowsuit that had shoved us away, from behind the tree. As our eyes drifted to where he was looking, we discovered he was studying a white squirrel. Though we wanted to scare it off, we snuck away quietly away so as not to ruin his research. At last continuing our trip down the hill, our young, golden bonds were to be shared for
He looks ahead, and tries to listen over the sound of head pounding silence that the snow has made. He steps very carefully through the snow, quietly, hearing nothing except the soft crunch beneath his feet. He always thought, strangely, that snow would be a little more soft, a little more powdery. Instead, it's hard like a rock, and crunches like bones when he steps on it. He wondered where he got the idea that snow was soft. He wondered why there was snow. He didn't remember it being winter, or... what the weather outside was like at all the past few days. In fact, even the past few days left his mind.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed movement outside the picture windows that covered two of the living room walls on my grandpa’s old farmhouse. My attention was immediately diverted from the television to the objects moving outside. I jumped from the floor to the revolving chair that sat facing the television. I spun the chair toward the windows and sat on the edge, peering through the cold glass. Directly outside the window was a thermometer reading fourteen degrees. The air was soupy and purple-gray clouds were faintly visible over the deep black of the night sky. The conditions were just right for snow, and I knew I had seen movement outside the window. Excitedly, I called my dad to my side to witness the impending snowfall. The snow was not as exciting for him as it was for me. He had grown up on this farm in Michigan, and snow on New
A few months ago, my old school was going through its normal routine. The sky was clear blue like aquamarine, and the sun glittered faintly. We had been excused for lunch, and everyone went outside to eat. Me and my friends were all their talking, but I was talking to Alex,
That first night in San Francisco was unforgettable. I was asleep for most of the airplane ride home. When I finally woke up everything looked so different. I saw the magnificent, glistening, blue ocean and a very large bridge. I stepped off the airplane and Amir asked me, “How are you doing Sohrab?” I said nothing.
I was awaken by an annoying tapping on my window. I search around my cover trying to find my phone but i'm pretty sure my bed eats it every night so of course I didn’t find it. I get up with my cover wrapped around me and go to my window to see what it is disturbing my beautiful sleep. As i'm walking I hear something drop on my floor by me and jump. I see my phone on the floor get it to make sure my baby wasn’t hurt. I push the power button and am instantly blinded my my bright screen.