Explore the Best Shafts Art | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Literature

A Dark and Stormy Night

(A Spooky Real-Life Encounter) Since it’s almost Halloween, this seems like the best time for a tale like this, as it’s something that still gives me chills just thinking about it. Years ago, I was walking home from a session at Knight Library late one stormy night. I left the library some time between ten-thirty and eleven, so after trudging through downtown Eugene to the Ferry Street Bridge, then along the river in the pouring rain, it was probably at least midnight. It was just past one last stretch of woods before I made it to the Valley River Hotel, the VRC Mall parking lot, when I first spotted it. I remember at first ju