I'm thinking it has to do with nasty virus running lose currently. Maybe USPS is short drivers or, processors because some are out sick. I check the tracking it says in transit, arriving late. So, a very ambiguous status.
Being a writer of fiction I could easily speculate all kinds of story possibilities from that.
The Dread
by Preston W. Earnest
Copyright July 23rd, 2020
"In transit, arriving late," the text message from my wife read. I was not sure if she had run into an accident, maybe she was abducted by aliens. That seems to happen. Another thing I needed to consider living in West Virginia and forty five minutes from Point Pleasant, the Moth-man may be causing her lateness.
I recall my past encounter with the Moth-man, chills slide down my spine. The couch breaks my backward fall, I'm nothing but a pile of quivering putty. As if on cue, the lights in the house flicker. My eyes blank out from the rapid flickering, I hear a slow creaking noise off to the right.
Into our living room walks my wife. "Hey, got home sooner than I expected," she says. I get up from the couch as I find my spine. She moves close to me and the lights have stopped flickering. We embrace and kiss for a moment. It's then in looking over her shoulder I notice the leathery wings folded into her back.
"No! You need to leave us alone," I growl out. The Moth-man takes a swing at me, I reel and everything fades to a somber blackness.
I hear him whisper in my ear as I lay on the floor, "Nobody bothers you in the country."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sample / Seed End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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