Matthew Parent's Short Story: The Haunted House

Words: 526
Pages: 3

“Mystery, Murder, Paranormal Events, and a story that leaves you guessing as the bodies stack up.” – Matthew Trent OutLoud Magazine

An excerpt from Vengeance

A light fog floated like a white blanket above the ground as the shovel ripped apart the green grass that was to become a grave. Darkness clung to him, like a shroud as the shadowy hooded figure dug quickly to avoid the light of morning. With every scrape of the shovel the hole grew deeper and the figure looked more distraught. A storm of sinister emotion rolled across the stranger's face. Killing someone was the easy part, getting rid of the body was a bit harder.

As the hole became large enough for a body, the figure turned and headed to the house. He moved swiftly through the fog to where on the back
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As mounds of dirt covered the sheet, the guilt raged deep inside. Death’s cold grip had come more than once that day. The police knew about the first one, they could not be allowed to find a second body.

The fog burned off the land as the first light of day found the hooded figure planting a new garden where the torn earth had become a grave. As the figure looked around the beautiful garden, a feeling came on, one that said it was over. If no one could find the body then no one could call it murder.

As the figure walked around the house to put the tools in the back of the truck, a face of a young blond girl appeared in the window. She watched intently as the figure moved about his business. She pushed against the glass in attempt to free herself from house that had become her tomb. As the tail gate closed on the bed of the truck, the figure looked back at the house. The girl beat her fists as hard as she could on the window. She screamed as loud as she could, but no sound was heard. There was only a light chirping of morning birds and the crunch of footsteps walking