JD watched nervously as the clouds rolled in, covering the moon in a thick blanket of dark gray. Within a span of seconds, the shadows of the alleyway crept into the street, leaving only a pale circle of golden light cast by the street lamp down the road. JD’s heart skipped a beat. He looked at his watch. It was fifteen after three in the morning. He should have taken a taxi from the club. As the edge of the shadow crawled closer to him, he wondered again why he had not.
The lamp down the street flickered once. It had never done that before. The trees to his left rustled in a breeze, and he shivered, pulling his coat tighter around himself. In the six years since moving to Cardiff, JD had never been afraid of the night, but something about this night was different. Something waited out th
