Reflection

Sam Grover had just moved to Detroit, Michigian to take a job as a veternarian. After looking at the bare walls of his new home, he decided to go buy decorations

"Can I help you?" the eager clerk asked.

"I am looking for a decoration, such as a painting to hang on my wall," Sam answered.

"I can't help you with a painting, but I have this antique mirror you might consider," encouraged the clerk.

After careful inspection, Sam decided to purchase the mirror.

Once home, Sam put the mirror in his bedroom. Happy with the way the mirror looked on the wall, Sam decided to lie down and read for a while. He heard thunder and saw lightning in the window. Suddenly, the lights went out, Sam remembered a candle he had in his dresser to use in such a occasion. He lit the candle and returned to bed. Suddenly, the mirror came to life Sam saw a lady dressed in old fashioned clothes dancing at what appeared to be a ball. As he lie frozen staring at the mirror, the lights flickered then came back on. Sam wasn't sure if he saw the scene in the mirror, or if his eyes were playing tricks on him. He decided to move the mirror downstairs, until he figured out what was going on.

The next morning Sam returned to the store he purchased the mirror from.

"Good morning," smiled the clerk. "How's the mirror?"

"It's beautiful," replied Sam. "Where did you get it?"

The clerk began to explain how he found the mirror in the basement of the store, and thought it would be a good piece of merchandise to sell.

After Sam listened to the clerk, he decided to go home.

That evening a storm brewed again. Sam heard the rumbling of the thunder outside, and the rain pelted the roof vigorously. He began to think of the night saw the lady in the mirror and crept out of bed. As he was moving down the stairs carrying a candle he could hear the walls of his old house creaking. He reached the mirror downstairs, and the glow of the candle fell over it. Sam shrieked in horror when he saw in the mirror, the clerk of the store. Sam bolted up the stairs to his bedroom, jumped into his bed and eventually fell asleep

Around 4:00 A.M Sam woke abruptively to the sound of thunder and remembered the events of the night. He kept telling himself it was a dream, but he knew what he saw was real. The storm outside knocked the power out. Sam got out of bed and lit a candle and went into the basement to check the breaker. As he was going down the stairs, he began to tremble at the thought of the clerks image in the mirror. The candle light filled the room falling upon the mirror in a luminous glow.

Sam looked into the mirror half expecting to see the clerk, but all he saw was his reflection staring back at him. Sam's laughter echoed the room.

"It was just a dream," Sam said to himself in relief.

Sam looked back into the mirror and shrieked in fear as he watched his reflection start to move and act on its own. The reflection of Sam began to change and twist into a hideous and grotesque beast. The image became inhuman and held no resemblance to the former reflection.

"This is officer Johnson reporting a case," the police officer reported.

"We've been called down here from the neighbors of Sam Grover. They said they heard screams during the night coming from next door," Officer Johnson reported.

"Upon searching the house the house, all that we've found is this old antique mirror."