The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke

Author:Alexandria Clarke [Clarke, Alexandria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

A soft cry echoed through the night. At first, I didn’t realize what had woken me. I lay in bed, the covers pushed down to my feet to combat the warmth of the evening, and listened. Crickets chirped outside, water dripped from the gutter, and something—a raccoon maybe—skittered along the roof tiles.

I heard it again: the soft sob of a child from far away.

Getting out of bed, I put on my slippers and ventured into the hallway. Using the moonlight as a guide, I crept toward the source of the sound, down the stairs and into the common area where we’d had our first writers’ mixer.

There, in the middle of the room, was the same crib I’d seen in the north wing earlier. It was still and silent. I waited at the bottom of the stairs, watching the crib.

The baby cried again.

As I inched toward the crib, the hair on my arms rose. A feeling of wrongness seeped into my pores and lifted bumps from my skin. The baby’s cries intensified as I grew closer, a keening wail that penetrated past my ear drums and into my head. My throat tightened. One more step, and I’d be able to see inside. The baby screamed, in obvious pain. I leapt forward.

All at once, everything fell silent. The crib was empty. My pulse raced as I backed away. Shaking, I turned my back on the crib and went upstairs. On the second floor, I checked behind me. The crib, like so many other things in the estate, had disappeared.

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