A Walk in the Spooky Forest…

I went for a walk alone yesterday afternoon, in the nearby pine woods, just as it was getting dark. I don’t get spooked by being alone in the deep forest. But yesterday, on the shortest day of the year, something changed. I was standing looking at my phone to get my location when a crazy, raucous laugh started up – a crow, of course. Then it sounded like I was near the road, with the sound of wet tyres swishing past, somehow comforting. But it was only the wind, soughing through the trees, t...