Revenant
Rapid gibberish gushed from one corner then a putrid balloon of odor burst, tainted air expanding throughout the room. In the darkness, something scuttled toward the bed where the girl slept.
David lay in bed listening to the wind sough through the eaves of their new home. The first storm of winter arrived in the evening, dropping the season’s first snow. A moderate wind had steadily increased to gale force as the snow transformed from swarming fireflies into the scouring blizzard now raging outside.