Fade to Black by J. A. Darke

Fade to Black by J. A. Darke

Author:J. A. Darke [Darke, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 978-1-4965-3070-7; 978-1-4965-3072-1; High interest; scary story; psychological thriller
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-08-21T00:00:00+00:00


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Mila woke in darkness. She lay on the examination table and stared up at the tiles of the ceiling. She listened but heard nothing. Maybe she had slept too long.

Maybe the day had ended, and Mrs. Barabasha had gone home, forgetting about the student sleeping in her office. She would have turned the light off after Mila fell asleep, after all. No matter what Mila said about leaving the lights on, everyone knows that people sleep better in the dark. It would have been the decent thing to do.

Maybe the last bell had rung, and all the students left, and the lights were off because even the teachers and custodians had gone home.

She hoped it was true. But she suspected it was not. She suspected it was happening again — whatever it was.

Mila got up, threw open the nurse’s office door, and ran into the dark hallway like a girl possessed.

“Hello?” she shouted. Her voice echoed through the school, looping around the hallways and bouncing off the ceilings and lockers till she heard her own cry over and over again.

But Mila heard something else, too. She heard a squeak. At first she thought it was a mouse scurrying around in the vents somewhere. But no — as it squeaked some more, Mila realized it was a wheel.

At the far end of the long and wide front hallway, a shadow fell across the white tiled floor. Something was coming.

When it had happened before — when the darkness and silence and solitude had come — Mila had been alone. She had been desperate then for anyone to come find her and pull her out of the darkness and back to her normal, well-lit life. But now, in the huge, empty school with no idea of where to go or how to get there, someone was coming, and it terrified her.

Mila pressed her body against the wall as if she might hide from whatever approached, but it was no use. She tried the doorknob of the nurse’s office, thinking she would go back in there to hide, but it had locked behind her. She hustled down the hallway to try some of the classroom doors, but they were also locked. There was nowhere to hide.

Mila could see the front entrance, just down the hallway, and she could tell it was dark out.

She ran for the entrance — six sets of double glass doors, all locked with heavy chains. There was no getting out that way. She crouched where she was with her back against the doors and watched as the shadow grew shorter and shorter, and the squeak grew louder and louder, as whoever it was got closer and closer.



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