Blogging for Accord Hospice: Story #84

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DAY 84

STORY #84

The Short-cut

The housemaids, Annie and Grace, had gone to the village on their day off, to visit with friends. Now as they were walking home, the lowering dripping clouds pressed down on them, and the pair decided to take a short-cut home, through the woods.

Fog rolled in--aimlessly drifting, obscuring the dead winter trees in its murkiness. The wind swept away Grace’s hat, and she ran into the brush to retrieve it--and vanished. Annie called out for hours, and by the next day, the whole village was searching…but Grace was never seen again, swallowed by the mists of Time.