Courtney Mackinnon

Cabin in the Woods

The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. My mom told me a story about a woman named Lisa who lived just outside the small town she grew up in. The story says that no one had lived in that cabin for years, and the county had been talking about tearing it down. She said that many people had come to see it while it was for sale, but no one ever bought it, and no one ever went inside. One evening around 7 o’clock while Lisa was taking her usual trail walk that looped around the old cabin up to the lake and back to her home. She saw a candle in the window of that cabin. She stopped and thought for a second, maybe someone finally bought it and she would come back tomorrow and welcome her new neighbors. The air turned deeply chilly, and the woods fell eerily silent, she figured it was time to return home to bed.