shimmer

the back stairs“There was something in the back hallway,” my wife tells me over dinner. “I saw it right before we were leaving.”

“What did you see?”

She thinks for a moment. “It was a blur in the air, almost shimmering. Just a movement…”

Gooseflesh on my arms, the back of my neck. “That’s interesting you say that.”

“Why?”

“Tell me what else you saw. What color was it?”

“A gray-blue, a movement like…” She mimes someone passing a hand over their head. “Like someone was throwing a hood over themselves.”

I nod, even though it’s not quite a match with what I saw the previous night.

I tell her that when I was down in the basement, just as I was closing the door, something walked towards me… A shimmer in the air, like a heat mirage.

Mine was brighter, nearly transparent, almost gold.

It was there, then it was gone.

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