The Water Wraith
A Short Horror
The Water Wraith
By Mariam Naeem
This place is beautiful, she thought. Walking into a grand entrance that led to an even more stunning lobby area, Jana smiled as she stared around at the place that would be her home for the next week. A writer’s retreat. Perfect.
She never got the chance to do this. She was always swamped with work at the office and found it difficult to take even a weekend to herself, she was usually stuck working overtime because her caseload was generally quite heavy. Not this week though. This week she had been determined to take it for herself. She had a book that needed to be written, after all.
“So, this house is 450 years old and has surprisingly held up well over the years…There are twenty bedrooms, two drawing rooms, a dining room, ballroom, as well as multiple bathrooms and of course the kitchen quarters. This house has been part of the same family since it was built and has been beautifully maintained over the years. The owners wished to keep every original part of the building perfectly preserved…but the fact that they required an income from this stately home meant opening it to a select few of the public. That is how The Writer’s Retreat came into being here.”
“Wow!” Jana whispered. Next to her, a man dressed in black jeans and leather…
