Here are two short stories I found that really caught my attention. Since it is the season for scaring, I'll share these with you. Note that I gave them different titles that felt more fitting.
The Man in the Window
A girl
was home all alone watching TV on a cold winter night. The television was right
beside a sliding glass door, and the blinds were open.
Suddenly she
saw a man staring at her through the glass! She screamed, then grabbed the
phone next to the couch and pulled a blanket over her head so the guy couldn't
see her while she called the police. She was so terrified that she remained under
the blanket until the police got there.
It had
snowed a lot during the day, so the police naturally decided to look for
footprints. But there were no footprints at all on the snowy ground outside the
sliding door.
Puzzled, the
police went back inside the house – and that's when they saw the wet footprints
on the floor leading up to the couch where the girl was still sitting.
The
policemen looked at each other nervously. "Miss, you're extremely
lucky," one of them finally said to her.
"Why?"
she asked.
"Because,"
he said, "the man wasn't outside at all. He was in here, standing right
behind the couch! What you saw in the window was his reflection."
Out of Fuel
A
woman and her boyfriend were on their way home from the movies one night, and
suddenly his car ran out of gas. It was about one in the morning and they were
completely alone in the middle of the nowhere.
The guy stepped out of the car, saying comfortingly
to his girlfriend, "Don't worry, I'll be right back. I'm just going to go
out for some help. Lock the doors, though."
She locked the doors and sat restlessly, waiting for
her boyfriend to come back. Suddenly, she sees a shadow fall across her lap.
She looks up to see... not her boyfriend, but a strange, crazed looking man. He
is swinging something in his right hand.
He sticks his face close to the window and slowly
pulls up his right hand. In it is her boyfriend's decapitated head, twisted
horribly in pain and shock. She shuts her eyes in horror and tries to make the
image go away. When she opens her eyes, the man is still there, grinning
psychotically. He slowly lifts his left hand, and he is holding her boyfriend's
keys... to the car.
