Story 86: The Moonlit Hunt

The full moon hung high in the night sky, casting an eerie glow over the dense forest that surrounded the small town of Willow Creek. The townsfolk had long told stories of the forest—whispers of creatures that roamed the woods under the cover of darkness, beasts that were neither human nor animal. But like all small towns with dark secrets, these tales were dismissed as mere superstition, the stuff of nightmares that only plagued the young and the imaginative.

Alina, a rebellious teenager with a penchant for thrill-seeking, never paid much heed to the old legends. To her, they were just stories spun by the elders to keep children in line. On this particular night, as the moon bathed the world in silver, she decided to venture into the forest, determined to prove that there was nothing to fear.