Chapter 1

It was a dark and stormy night as she hurried to lock all of the doors and windows as the wind screamed against them. Too dark and stormy if you asked her. Sure it was a quiet street most of the time, a few teenagers drove by blasting their car stereos now and again but nothing really bad. But tonight, with Gerald two states away on business, something made her blood run cold and once she had them all locked, she retreated to her bedroom where she pulled the blinds and curtains. She sat on her bed and grabbed the remote off the nightstand. "Maybe TV will drown out this storm," she said out loud and to no one but herself. She clicked it on and started to surf through channels when the screen went black. The room went black. The power was out. As she sat there consumed by the darkness of the night that had engulfed her home, she heard the faint crash and tinkle of breaking glass from downstairs. The darkness was coming in and in panic she froze.

Snoopy has started a story with a dark and stormy night many times in Peanut's comic's strips and sadly I don't get all of them. Charles Schultz was a great cartoonist but sometimes a little over my head bless his soul. I just had this crazy thought of starting a story the way Snoopy does and see where it goes. That was fun and rather interesting. On to something else....