Twitter Story Challenge #1 Entry

MARIA

It was midnight. The girl had woken to the whooshing of dark winds. Heavy rains fell and cast haphazard shapes across her window. She roused and walked to it, looking to the massive trees beyond. They kept her gaze and in their wild dance, called her; voicelessly..

The rains stopped abruptly and the winds ceased as though obeying an order. The girl went out of the house, into the night lighted by small, scary white dots.

It was not long before the girl's mother awoke and discovered she was gone. The mother went outside, stood by the stoop calling:

"Maria! Maria come back!"

But the girl stood looking at the large tree that stood at the centre, unmovingly.

Then the girl turned. Her face was white and stiff. She was dead.

Then she began to walk back to the house.

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