WRITING OBSTACLE
By Kevin Grieve @ Unsplash

Open a horror or thriller story with the scene of a duck gently touching down in misty waters.
The Figure
It's glides into the water. It's misty and cloudy and all I can see in my view is the duck in the water. It's peaceful, but also exhilarating. Anything could be out here, I'm the misty shadows.
I sit beside the lake for a while, standing up when all I see is the mist. I turn around and I see somthing move in the trees, I look closer again but see nothing. Just the mist I think, it's really cloudy. I start walking towards my car, the birds singing a melody through out my walk, the leaves and branches crunching under my feet as I go through the forest path. I stop and take in the view, it's so beautiful I don't want to go back, to the city where all you hear is noise all day long.
I hear a crack of a branch in the woods, I look trying to see what it could be.. A deer perhaps?
Then, behind the tree someone peaks at me, wearing a mask to cover their face, it's all black, I can see nothing of their face. Their tall and I I don't know who it could be.
I stare at the figure, they stare back. I back away slowly then a little faster, they come from behind the tree walking towards me. Walking.. walking.. I pick up the pace I turn around and start sprinting yelling for anyone, anyone to hear me. It's no use in in the middle of the woods.
Their catching up, their too fast, I keep going I don't give up a fight easily.. just then somthing catches my foot. I trip and I fall and they slow to a stop right above me.