Blue Jeans and Pearls

Title: The Covenant
Genre: YA Paranormal/Urban

The Furies were here.

 Icy fear clawed through me, and for a moment, I was unable to think as the darkness of the abandoned steel factory settled in around me. I cheated Death before, but this time, as I inched across the creaky boards, I knew the odds weren’t in my favor.

They were on the lower level, searching each room systematically, and there was nowhere to go but up.  Every other time I had been lucky. Always near an exit, always a way out.     

Now I was so screwed it wasn’t even funny.                        

Sweet poured off me, dampening the two day old shirt I wore as I crept towards the crooked door. The heat and humidity in lower Georgia was bad enough, but the anxiety and fear didn’t help.

I halted, straining to hear how many of them were actually here this time. The slim handle of the garden spade cut into the flesh of my hand as I squeezed. A god damned garden spade was the only weapon I had. But it was made of pure iron, and if Furies hated anything, they loathed iron.

The stairway to my right creaked, and a board gave way. A deep howl broke the silence and the Fury erupted into a sting of curses.

They were close, too close.

Then the screaming began. It started as a low whine before hitting such an intense pitch that I winced and stumbled. Nothing in this world sounded like a Fury – a hungry Fury.