It's raining tonight, makes it hard for people to see the person that could be lurking in the shadows waiting to jump out and attack. The streets are getting dangerous especially for young girls to walk home. I pick up my pace hoping the splashes beneath my feet don't alert anyone close by. I keep my eyes ahead and carefully side eye all the shadows in between each building and alley. A bolt of li...

School had ended thirty minutes ago, and my house was a faraway sanctuary. The bus had already left, and my mother was in another country for a business meeting. My phone, of course, was dead. The isolated road, adorned with dim street lights, and the cool breeze sporadically hitting my face, added an eerie touch to the atmosphere.

I shoved my hands deep into the pockets of my coat, my eyes darti...

To my discovery, the challenges of my gender appear not only to have begun as exhaustive, but are expanding in oddity and their sinister nature with each day.

“Well, you don’t wanna walk home alone! As another girl, I thought you’d understand?” Sheri looked at me with a tentative expression, her eyes a little wide under her false lashes which brushed against the bubble of her fringe.

He...

The darkness is where they thrive. They anticipate that sudden jolt of adrenaline that spikes when you hear footsteps shuffling closer and closer to you, and then suddenly holt.

They know you notice it, even when you choose to ignore the obvious signs. They can smell the fear leaking from your pours. It makes them salivate to the very thought of it.

The lonely souls that choose to walk alone a...

I emerged from the outside office door into the dead of night. A street light flickered reminding me that I did not want to stay late at work tonight. It is the one night that the strangers in the shadows would creep up on you and do the unimaginable. I wish I knew what that was but I didn’t have much of imagination but figured it must be bad for it to be a saying. _Why had my boss asked me to st...

The dark changes people. People you think you know. People you've spent your whole life with. When walking home, especially near midnight, never walk with anyone. For your safety or theirs. Darkness is a disease, it infects anyone and everyone. It's goal is to decrease the population, one by one, murder by murder. The minds are taken to a dark, dark place. Always Walk home alone. Unless you hate t...

**Don’t Walk Home Alone**

The air was heavy with the lingering warmth of the day, but the encroaching darkness brought a sharp chill that crept through the streets. Nadia adjusted the strap of her backpack, her steps echoing through the deserted alleyway as she walked briskly toward her apartment. She told herself it was just another evening. But deep down, she knew something felt… off.

She had ...

“Don’t walk home alone, little one, there are monsters that lurk behind every corner.” My mother always used to tell me as she kissed me goodbye.

“Don’t walk alone, call or text a friend, beware monsters that wait to snatch young folks away.” My dad would tell me the day I drove off to college.

“Don’t walk home alone. I’ll be there to keep you from the shadows that creep.” My love told me the day...

“Don’t walk home alone alone!” My grandmother said.

“Why” I asked

“The boogieman will get you”

“Don’t walk home alone. Always walk in groups.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s harder for people to get you if you’re in a group”

“Don’t walk home alone, epically at night. Wait inside until we get there?”

“Why?”

“Because anyone could garb you and throw you in their”

“Don’t walk home alone. Make sure you keep a ...

I was leaving the music store in the plaza near my home. I had about a ten to fifteen minute walk ahead of me. I was wearing my usual mini skirt, fishnet stockings, and tight fit shirt. A look that I loved, but definitely had a tendency to attract the wrong type of attention. While I was in the store, this very creepy guy from the neighborhood was also there. Marc was his name, and while I wa...