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“Shhhhh.” Jenna whispered as her face went pale. “Did you guys hear that? I swear I just heard, like, a growling sound or something.” Jenna held up her hand. “Just—listen—”
All the girls were quiet, and then it came again, a soft rrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRR that grew to a crescendo and made the hair on the back of Jenna’s neck stand up. She could tell right away, from the scared expression in her friends’ eyes that they had heard it too.
“Uh, Maggie?” Brittany whispered. “You didn’t get a dog or anything, did you?”
Her eyes wide, Maggie shook her head.
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Suddenly a shadow darted across the closed curtains. With a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, Jenna realized: There was something outside the window.
A lifelong night owl, P.J. Night often works furiously into the wee hours of the morning, writing down spooky tales and dreaming up new stories of the supernatural and otherworldly. Although P. J.’s whereabouts are unknown at this time, we suspect the author lives in a drafty, old mansion where the floorboards creak when no one is there and the flickering candlelight creates shadows that creep along the walls. We truly wish we could tell you more, but we’ve been sworn to keep P. J.’s identity a secret . . . and it’s a secret we will take to our graves!
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