Ode To the New Yorker

Short Story: Walk in the dark

It was about 7:30 pm, the moon was out. I lived in Bathurst in Canada at the time. The neighborhood was quite prominent, mixed with Bungalows and two story homes. But there’s this house in the corner it’s quite a big one, new, made of brick. With an old mercedes in the driveway. I have seen the people outside before, pale, with black hair. My neighborhood has a lot of houses, but the part I live in is a circle that connects to the rest of the neighborhood. On my walks, I usually walk around the circle three times.

Walking for me is the perfect thing to do. It’s a chance for me to reflect on my life, go into deep thinking, and imagine what life could be like. As I was on my second lap around my neighborhood, something in that house around the corner didn’t deem right. The front door was wide open, but the Mercedes in the driveway was gone. Although my neighborhood was quite safe, I thought it would be best if I closed the door. As I walked up the steps I heard a shriek. Immediately my gut instinct was to run away, but I saw the Mercedes pulling in the driveway, and I bolted inside, and an up the stairs.

I heard people enter. The man asked “Why is the front door open?” The lady, who mus

t’ve been his wife went and quickly closed it. “Do you think any one heard?” she asked. The man just nodded. I was upstairs behind a wall, but I took a step back and the floor creaked. Immediately the couple stopped talking. They yelled upstairs “James is everything alright” I wondered who James was until I felt something whack my head. While I was unconscious I heard dialogue between the two.

“What should we do to him? Take him to where we are keeping her?”

“No we should call the police and tell them he was trespassing, that way there is no big scene.”

When I woke up, I was in the police station charged with trespassing and assault. I asked who I assaulted and they said I punched the wife in the nose. There was nothing I could do. The second I got out of jail I moved away from that neighborhood. Only to see their familiar faces on the news 5 years later, accused of the kidnapping of 17 women and sending them to the black market.

Moon