Holly Homan

Back Stabbed

“The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but for one night, a candle burned in the window”. The campfire crackled and sparked. The camping group huddled next to each other, their eyes wide, frozen in place while their marshmallows charred and smoked. Everyone knew about the abandoned cabin at the end of the road, the one with the caution tape crossed over the front door and the ‘for sale’ sign still staked in the front lawn with its overgrown weeds and brown grass. A bit of an urban legend; kids spent the night in the forgotten cabin as a dare. No one ever lit a match, for fear of bringing HIM back; the infamous serial killer of our decade, the Back-Stabbing Killer, everyone’s worst nightmare. The tale says that “whomever conjures light within these walls will suffer the same fate as his victims”.