Darkness

you are studying in your parents’ home library, preparing for the next day’s physics test. The light is dim and flickers every few minutes as the wind howls outside, the dark October weather making the trees shake and the windows tremble. You’ve lived in this old house with your parents for the past three years. The house is nice, but creaky, its old design going back to the early nineteenth century. You see something out of the corner of your eye… a shadow…