M is for Wendy's Blogaversary Blogfest featuring the Letter 'M' - A to Z Challenge

Happy Blogaversary Wendy Tyler Ryan! Check out her blog! It's very cool and full of great information about self-publishing, her upcoming book release and all things Canadian!

Wendy asked for her fellow bloggers to join her on her 1 year Blogaversary and use their Letter 'M' from the A to Z Challenge to write a piece of flash fiction with a dark feel. The catch...use her 6 words beginning with the letter M: mist(y), mambo, moon, musky(y), mongrel, myth.

Here is my entry:

You heard I was a myth. But I’m not.

You thought I was just a story told to children to keep them in their beds. You’re wrong.

The wind isn’t howling. I am.

Out of the corner of your eye you can almost see me.

You smelled my musk and you hoped it was a wild animal.

That coppery taste of fear in the back of your throat was caused by me.

You felt my presence and wanted to believe it was your imagination.

It’s so much worse than you think.

I’m like the Mambo, the Voodoo priestess, possessing your spirit under the moon.
I'm like the witch doctor cursing your very existence.

I’m a mongrel, a beast, a freak.

I’m the reason the monsters run and the darkness hides.

I’m what the campfire stories are all about.

I’m lying in the shadows.

I’m creeping through the mist.

I’m just behind the door.

I’m waiting under your bed.

I’m the quick indrawn breath.

I’m the high pitched scream.

I’m your nightmare come true.

Don’t try to find me…I’ll find you.