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The Shadow
The girl gazed out the coffee shop window and out at the bleak streets of the city. People rushed by silently, donned in long winter coats as snow drifted lazily down onto the cracked sidewalks. Streetlamps stood resolute, casting pools of yellow light over passerby and car.
Dracula quivered slightly in her gloved hands, red cover tarnished and ripped. The empty shop mumbled quietly with the voices of the employees in the back. Her coffee was long gone, devoured just as she devoured the words in her book, and she had no reason to stay.
The clock on an opposite wall read 8:30 pm, and she realized with a start her brother would be there any minute. She pushed back the stiff wooden chair and tucked the book into a small leather handbag she carried at her side.
Without a noise, she walked out the shop to the frozen streets of the city.
An icy chill wrapped itself around her, sending her shivering as she made her way to one of the tall streetlamps in the now empty street....
Dracula quivered slightly in her gloved hands, red cover tarnished and ripped. The empty shop mumbled quietly with the voices of the employees in the back. Her coffee was long gone, devoured just as she devoured the words in her book, and she had no reason to stay.
The clock on an opposite wall read 8:30 pm, and she realized with a start her brother would be there any minute. She pushed back the stiff wooden chair and tucked the book into a small leather handbag she carried at her side.
Without a noise, she walked out the shop to the frozen streets of the city.
An icy chill wrapped itself around her, sending her shivering as she made her way to one of the tall streetlamps in the now empty street....
