Horizon: File 012 (My Little Nightmare)

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FILE 012: MY LITTLE NIGHTMARE


Coffee at the ready. Make sure you've got all your lights turned on.

So, in the moment that I turned around I knew that it wasn't my daughter that Joan Stark had found walking out of the woods. It couldn't be my daughter. This was something else.

I turned to face whatever stood behind me just as the ice-cold fingertips of the "thing" touched the base of my exposed neck. What stood there was a shadow. That's all I can describe it as. Female in shape but taller than Eleanor. Slim and lithe with a the outline of a dress flowing around it. But when I shone my torch light on its face I caught the glimpse of the pale, familiar looks of my Eleanor.

The thing leered at me, with Eleanor's eyes, and jerked forward unnaturally. I had gasped, stepped back and dropped my phone. The light from the torch spread out to partially illuminate the room and I watched as the shadowy woman expanded, spreading out through all the free spaces around her, creeping across the walls and the corners. Filling the room. And there was a sound. Something I'll always struggle to forget. Like a moaning sound. A deep, groaning filled with pain and anguish getting louder and louder the bigger the shadow became. I had been paralysed with fear. Unable to get up.

Until the door had burst open and Joan Stark and flown in wearing a pink, fluffy dressing gown and holding a wooden cross in her hands. The lights in the hallway had all gone out. The place was in pitch darkness. But Stark had hauled me to my feet and told me in much more colourful language to get out of the building. I barely had any courage to protest so had stumbled to my feet and escaped the room, leaving her to face whatever this thing was.

The entire vicarage had been thrown into darkness. I could barely see to make my way down the stairs and to the front door. All the time I could hear the unearthly moaning of the creature up in the spare bedroom. It was only whe-----

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Damn it. I'm on the road again. Something put a signal blocker on my connection so I'm travelling out of the area. I'll find somewhere to hole up and then I'll finish this bloody nightmare of an event.


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