Creative Writing: Shadow House

Decent Essays
#24 Ivy Phong

Title : Shadow House
Pages : 86 - 90

Dylan was still looking for Del at the library. He couldn’t believe the nerve of Poppy on how she talked to him like that. Dylan was glad that they both splitted up. The thought stopped, hallway twisted deeper into the house farther away from the daylight. Looking for his phone, he turned of the flashlight. Shadows were denser like if they were alive and he scanned the walls looking for a light switch, but it all was a blue wall. A dim figure catched Dylan's eyes. He thought it was Del, but it was another boy with a mask, metal cuffs around his ankles with a short length of rusted chains. Sharp pain blasted in the back of Dylan’s skull, his vision blurred as it’s watering. His

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