# From Afar - Spooky Poem

Author: K9Lupus
Tags: Horror, Human, Non-Anthro, Poem, SFW

Wanted to try my hand at doing something different from the usual stories I've been making for One-Hour Story, so I went with a more dark "short-story" inspired by The Company of Wolves I most recently watched along with thinking of classics by Edgar Allen Poe. Let me know if you'd like to see more things like this from me in the future as I'm always keen to branch out and try new writing styles.  
  
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On a dark, dark night

 

In a spooky, old wood

 

There's a house with a door left ajar.

 

 

There's a woman in the window

 

With a hand on her shoulder

 

And trailing down her cheek is a scar.

 

 

Someone lost in the wood

 

Comes right upon the house

 

Doesn't knock, comes inside, and says “Hello?"

 

 

Only silence greets him

 

As he goes throughout the house

 

Until he hears growling from Below.

 

 

Now there's a pounding on the stairs

 

As the man scrabbles up

 

Trying to escape what it is that he has found.

 

 

Time is running out

 

As the threat grows ever nearer

 

When the man slips fast and hits the ground.

 

 

Then the lights go out

 

One-two, three-four,

 

Shadows ravenous at once to consume.

 

 

With an outstretched hand

 

His fingers wrap around a knob

 

And he locks himself inside the woman's room.

 

 

She's a paltry little thing.

 

With a gray, feathered hat

 

And a smile that could warm the freezing cold.

 

 

But when his eyes look upon her

 

His heart is drenched in terror

 

As her gaze pierces straight through to his soul.

 

 

“Oh, little deary...

 

How did you get here so?

 

Don't you know it's the hour of the star?

 

 

It's a special time

 

That I've saved here just for you

 

While I've been watching from afar."

 

 

On a dark, dark night

 

In a spooky, old wood

 

There's a house with a door left ajar

 

 

There's a woman in the window

 

With two hands on her shoulders

 

And trailing down her cheek is a scar.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/7ejW3r9m