Shadow

A Parable

As they say their last goodbyes to their dear friend, mourners are horrified to find unearthly visitors have joined them. As their hysterical singing and nervous laughter fade, a "vague, and formless, and indefinite" shadow appears which leaves the mourners paralyzed with fear. The shadow speaks in the voice of "familiar accents of many thousand departed friends."

Public Domain (P)2001 K. Anderson Yancy