The Great Disappearing Act
Prologue
It was a cool and windy night. Most of the townspeople were gathered in the theatre to observe supposedly the world's most amazing disappearing act. All except for one person. This person, was called Miss Harold, and was staying home to rest her recently injured eardrum. As she was watching TV, she heard someone knocking violently on the front door. "Who could it possibly be?" she thought, knowing that she was the only person who was staying at home. She wasn't a very curious person however, and tried to ignore it, as she was in the middle of a very interesting game show, but the knocking persisted. She finally gave in, and deliberately walked slowly to the door in the hope that the person might leave before she got there. She had no such luck. Imagine her annoyance when she opened the door and no one was there! The nerve of some people! Than the knocking started again at the window. This time, she refused to get up for the rest of the night. Yet the knocking continued. She was so fed up by midnight that she decided to give the knocker a piece of her mind when she opened the window. That was what she had planned. What she didn't plan on was that when she opened the window she would let out a terrible scream that would echo through the neighborhood, one that no one would hear.