(miniflash story)

One cloudy rainy day, when the sun was setting below the horizon in a small town, Sophie, who was returning home, suddenly noticed a large raven. The bird was sitting in the yard of her neighbor’s house and piercingly creepy stared at the girl. She felt goosebumps on her back, and intrusive superstitious thoughts immediately popped into her head, but she just shrugged her shoulders and walked away.

The next day, the news that the neighbor was found dead in the morning under unknown circumstances in his own bedroom shook her. At the funeral, the same raven watched from a nearby tree, its cawing was haunting the girl. Ignoring the warning signs, Sophie returned home. That night, the screeching of brakes echoed down the street. Running outside, she found her best friend’s crumpled car. The raven’s gaze permeated her soul, its message was clear: a curse had covered this town, where death was now hiding in the dark…