Tiger Mask

By Rico Colley

On a cold, rainy night in Chicago, an old man was walking home from work. He turned a corner into a dark alley where the only light was the dim moonlight. At first, he was nervous to be in such a place at that time, but he took that alley home every night and nothing bad ever happened.

As he reached the end of the alley, he heard a faint growling. He turned his head and saw what appeared to be a man standing behind him. He felt a sharp, icy pain go straight up his spine when he realized that the man was wearing a tiger mask. He kept on walking trying to ignore the tiger masked stranger. He turned his head and saw the other man following him. He began walking a bit faster.

Finally, he made his way out of the alley, but as he turned on to his street, there were two other strangers with tiger masks on. The man let out a loud yelp of fear and began running. The three tiger masked strangers were still following him.

When he reached his house, the terrified man saw another stranger with a tiger mask crawling down the side of a near building like a spider. The man stormed into his house and locked every lock in the house. He calmed down and let out a sigh of relief. He went to the closet to hang up his coat when a stranger with a tiger mask leaped out and injected a shot into his neck.

The man suddenly hopped out of bed screaming. He then assumed he had just had a nightmare. The man walked to the closet with a small limp and opened it. As he reached for his hat, he let out a yell of horror when he realized that his closet was completely filled with tiger masks.