“He would tear himself at times from her … but he always found it impossible to fix his attention upon the ruins around him, whilst in his mind he retained an image that seemed alone the rightful possessor of his thoughts. John William Polidori, “The Vampyre” (1819) Chapter 31 On Tuesday, I had to stay late in the Flounder classroom to finish my story about the school’s upgrade of water faucets for the Birch Grove Weekly. I filed a copy in the archives and then helped proofread the other artic...les. As I walked out of the empty building, I got the spider-crawling-on-my-spine feeling that someone was watching me. I didn’t see a soul as I went around the outside of the building to the drive. When I reached the grove I listened for sounds other than the trees. I thought I heard a footstep on gravel and then I heard that soft crunching sound again. I was close enough to make it to the cottage if I ran. But I was sick of being chased, being harassed, being scared. I whirled around just in time to see someone in a hooded sweatshirt step off the path into the bushes.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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