Short Story Teaser

The Mirrored Room Silence filled the old mansion, broken only by the ticking of an ancient clock. No one had wound it in years, yet it chimed once, as if waking from a long sleep. Rowena crept through the house with bare feet and a shawl wrapped around her shoulders. It was a winter's night and, with no fires lit, her breath formed pale clouds in the cold air. She climbed the creaking stairs. In her hand she held a key she had found hidden in the hem of her dead mother's dres