Eva lurked at the edge of the wall, the base ball bat handy as she peeped cautiously following the trail of the shrieking voice. The shriek sounded from somewhere closely. She was in the sitting room now and everywhere was calm and devoid of a single soul.

The shrieking voice sounded this time accompanied with, “Oh damn.”

Eva followed the noise and traced it to her mother’s room. Interestingly, she came at the door, placed her ears on the door before peeping through the ...