By The CI View leadership team
Sketches by Dani Ramirez
Halloween is the time for spooky tales and scary stories! It takes a lot of creativity to come up with a tale full of ghoulish surprises, but it’s a whole different task to do it in only one sentence. This piece includes a short, scary story from each member of The CI View leadership team to make your skin crawl and to make you wary of the dark.
Wedding Ring by Kaylee Holsworth
As I walked along the frozen pond, the wind biting at my neck, a ghostly white hand appeared underneath the ice beneath my feet, and the hand was adorned with my wedding ring I lost years ago.
Best Friend by Chelsea Grandpre
When I was little, I had a best friend, someone I did everything with, but when I got older and I wanted to get back in touch with her, no one around had any recollection of her at all.
The Years Behind Me by Madelaine Brown
Every year on my birthday, my father took a photograph of me standing beside the same tree in our backyard, and when he died, I discovered the entire collection; I was the same age in every picture, but the tree had grown older, and something behind me had slowly gotten closer.
The Other Mother by Dani Ramirez
I always thought the neighborhood cat was the cause of the nightly scratching on my roof, until one day the scratching was accompanied by my mother’s voice, begging to be let inside.
My Father’s Finger by Esmeralda Meckler
When my father pulled my finger, it fell into his hand, in a state of panic, I started counting all my fingers but when I counted, I still had all ten and I heard him whisper, “that’s not your finger.”
