Too Far Gone

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Crashing thunder woke the child.

Casey lay still, taking deep breaths, huddling with the teddy bear as the storm’s fury assaulted her ears. Running bolts of lightning slashed the black sky.

Wind blasted the rain hard against the window’s panes.

The massive oak tree outside flailed its branches-like furious arms reaching out for the lace curtains.

She clenched shut her eyes.

“There’s nothing to fear,” her mother had said on other stormy nights. “You’re perfectly safe in your bed, Casey.”

Each dazzling flash made the familiar objects in her room both strange and malevolent. The stuffed animals perched on the window box instantly became monsters on the shadowy wall.

She listened for some sound to let her know if her parents were awake and perhaps moving around somewhere in the house. They will come tell me it’s all right.

The bedroom door was cracked open, the hallway a dark and endless tunnel.

Bam! A shutter on a nearby window, suddenly unhooked, slapped at the side of the house like an angry fist against a door. Bam! Bam! Bam!

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