******* Trying to write a thriller , haven't thought of a title***********
He heard a blood curdling scream , followed by an eerie silence. It sent a chill through his spine.
Who could it be on a Saturday night when everyone in the town preferred to be at the happening places instead of the deserted outskirts. He had chosen this location because of this very reason. It was deserted and nobody ever came there.
He was about to dismiss it as a figment of his imagination when he heard it again, this time louder. He immediately put down the crime fiction he was reading and rushed out of his house in his pajamas.
Just as he stepped out of the gate, he was blinded by the headlights of a speeding land cruiser, he jumped in time to save himself from being hit by it. Something is seriously wrong - he thought. He followed the Tyre tracks that the cruiser had left behind for half a mile till it ended near the woods. It was 1 am on his watch. No person in their right senses ever entered these deep dark woods at any time let alone past midnight, he too was petrified. But then he had nothing to lose. It was 9 years back during his NYPD training when he was 20, had learnt to fear nothing. He fished for the tiny torch that he always carried no matter where he was. He had flashbacks of his crime solving days at NYPD . He was the most dangerous officer and no criminal ever managed to escape when he was on a case. Everything was perfect until he until he mistook the chief of police for a drug dealer and shot him. The chief survived and the officer was kicked off the force. NYPD officer Mike Turner after seven years of selfless to the department was fired. Mike dismissed all the thoughts from his mind and walked into the woods. He walked cautiously trying not to make a sound but he did step over a few dead leaves but the crunch of the leaves under his slippers in the pitch dark and dead silent wood seemed like a bullet being shot. As he walked he flashed his torch in all directions somewhere in the woods he could hear a wolf. After a fifteen minute search when he had almost convinced himself that nothing was wrong and it was probably some drunk people being adventurous. When he flashed his torch on the ground he noticed a trail, trail of something being dragged.
It lead deeper into the woods. He followed it, just when he was near the river that flowed through the woods he stumbled upon something. Losing his balance he fell over it. He looked at what had made him fall and saw it was a body and he could hear the person breathe. Alive and breathing. He knelt next to the body to examine it, the person was lying on his back and had been stabbed in the abdomen. For the first time Mike Turner did not know what to do at a crime scene. Here he was a fired cop at 1:45 am in the dark woods in the middle of nowhere, with no prove that it wasn't he who had committed the crime. Coming back to his senses he called 911
Mike: Hi Mike Turner here. I am calling from the Green Estates, I have found a man. He has been stabbed in the forest nearby. Please send an ambulance immediately....
