That Halloween Night
It was Halloween, Hillary remembered, and quite cold for October. Sean was sitting on the edge of the peer because he had to show her something. She remembered being skeptical, especially since it was cold. She hated the cold. She couldn’t remember how he managed to convince her to go down to the peer, but somehow she was there.
The next few moments she remembered clearly. He turned around and smiled at her pointing down into the water. Coral, he had said. It glows. As soon as she took a step forward, that’s when she saw the black hand coming out of the water and grabbing Sean’s ankles. Before she could react, he was pulled into the water with hardly a splash. She reacted before thinking and looked over the side of the peer to where he had gone, hoping for a trace…
The water glowed green in a special spot. Coral, she thought and then turned and ran down the peer.
“Damn it,” she said. It was years after the event and the weather was warmer. She had her stomach to the peer and she was staring at the dark water, hoping, like every year, for a glow of green.
