Heart pounding. Legs burning with strain. Fear raged through her body as she ran for dear life. The long skirt she had been wearing was in tatters and her legs were bruised, covered in scratches. She passed store after closed store front, the more stores were closed the more her heart soared with fear.

She was being chased. Her assailant was unknown to her, just the mere thought of what was following her – crawling after her, scared her. She felt like a rabbit being stalked by a fox and one wrong move could cost her, her life. Even from here she could hear the creature’s labored breathing, almost like it was right by her ear.

The woman came crashing to the ground as one of her clunky heels snagged on an up turned piece of pavement. She fell amongst a pile of papers and rotting cabbage. She heard the scuttling of hands on paper right behind her, her heart leapt her throat. And slowly, as if time had stood still, she turned her head towards the noise.

What stood before her was a frightful sight. It was a once beautiful woman, whose hair was now matted with blood and everything from the waist was missing, her only way of transport was her hands.

“My legs? Have you seen them?” the half woman crawled towards her latest victim, who watched her with unconcealed fright and disgust. “Have you seen my legs?” hissed the creature, bringing herself closer.

The woman cried, and she cried loudly. She couldn’t understand what was crawling towards her. The creature was now right in front of her and a sob was caught in her throat as she stared into the half-woman’s eyes. They were empty blackness, dark and evil, showing nothing, no remorse, no conscious thought other than to hurt and kill. The half-woman raised her one of her arms, clenched in her hand was a sharp curved object. The woman cried, begging the thing to let her go and to show her mercy. But the creature heard none of it, she only had one objective and that was to hurt, to kill, to destroy.

The creature brought the object down and the woman’s cries and sobs were cut off as the creature cut her in half, from the waist down.

“If you don’t know where my legs are. Then I’ll just have to take yours.” Hissed the creature as she seized the bottom half of the woman and started to drag it away from the rest of the body.