An Undulation of a Shadow’s Edge

By David Hadley

Dark creatures writhe in the city’s shadows, Claire has seen them and seen their hungry eyes watching her... and waiting.
Claire avoids the darkness and the shadows of the city’s nights because she knows what lurks there.
That was until the night she saw Henry, standing in the darkest shadows watching her, wanting her as much as she wants him. But he is as unwilling to leave the dark as Claire is to enter it.
Will Claire save Henry before the shadows and darkness consume him and he is lost to the darkness forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Hadley
• Release date: Feb 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311995636

David Hadley

A bloke who writes stuff. Fiction across and between genres. David Hadley was born in 1959. He is married with three children and lives in the Black Country, UK. His writing has been published in several magazines in the UK and US. Many of his pieces have been Cherry-picked by the editors at abctales.com, including some selected as Story of the Week. (http://www.abctales.com/user/38640).

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An Undulation of a Shadow’s Edge

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An Undulation of a Shadow’s Edge

Sometimes, Claire glimpsed a world hidden away behind her thoughts. Back there, in the shadows, were those lurking creatures she tried not to think about too often. She knew those dark creatures hid in the shadows behind her. Occasionally, she saw flickers in mirrors and reflected back from the glass she brought up to her lips. Often, it was nothing more than an undulation of a shadow’s edge that she easily dismissed as a trick of the light.

Deep down, though, she knew the creatures of the shadows were lurking there, and that they had all the time in the world to wait. They had been waiting for humankind, ever since our time began, and they would still be here long after the universe forgot the legend of the human race.

Back when humanity was young, these creatures of the shadowed edges were spirits, demons, gods and all those other fates, fears and malevolences that lurked out beyond human control. They were the ghosts, goblins, elves and other such creatures, lurking in the shadows, waiting for the unwary to step on that deeper patch of darkness. A place that was no ordinary shadow; but a place that tore life screaming from the one who took that one step too far.

Claire was always careful not to step into the shadows; skirting their dark edges and always staying in the light. Even when she slept, there was a pool of low light around her; one she made sure covered all of her bed from the head to the foot, before she settled down and allowed her eyes to close. When she