Outside the Doors (3 book series)

 In one night, Earth was changed for the worse. My husband and I were watching TV when our dogs started to bark at the shadows outside the windows. Charles looked towards the windows and said, "It is probably a deer."

When the dogs did not stop we got up and moved to the sliding glass doors and put the outside lights on. Looking towards the woods that surround our house I saw a shadow. Pointing it out to Charles I said, "Babe look over there?"

He looked and said, "What is that?"

I asked him, "Are all the animals in? Is the barn closed?"

He nodded and said, "Yeah, when the storm warning came up I went into the barn through the tunnel and locked it up."

Pulling out my phone I pulled up the barns cameras and checked the animals. He looked over my shoulder and said, "Pull up the houses cameras I want to see what is outside."

Pulling up the outside cameras I grabbed his arms and said, "Babe the shadows are all around the house."

We went to all the doors and windows making sure each of them was locked. He grabbed his gun and said, "Call the non emergency line and report this and see what they say."

I called our county's non emergency line and a haggard man answered and said, "Are you reporting shadows outside your home?

"Yes," I said. "We have not went outside yet but my home on Elson Road is surrounded by them. What do we do."

"Get to a secure room and do not go outside," He said. "I repeat do not go outside. Let me get your information and I will get the military in the loop. Do not engage and if they breach the home you are authorized to use deadly force. Be aware that people have been reported missing when they engage the shadows."

"Charles," I said. "They said do not go outside."

He said, "Tell the police they are not coming into the light. They seem scared of the light."

The officer said, "I heard him and I have notified the local military. Be safe and call 911 if anything else happens."

The line disconnected and I grabbed my shot gun and hand guns loading them. I saw shadows near the barn and I threw all the spot lights on. As soon as the lights came on the shadows shrunk back to the trees. I went through the house and put every light on I could. I grabbed my big flashlights and started shinning them towards the barn whenever I saw a shadow go towards it. An hour later we saw helicopters fly overhead. There was a knock at the door, and I said, "Come to the back porch and let us see you."

We waited and did not see anyone come around. I called the emergency line and said, "The is Katie on Elson road. Let the military know these creatures are knocking on the doors when the helicopters go overhead."

"Katie there are no helicopters flying right now," He said. "They are on foot only."

"Then you have a problem because there were helicopters," I said. "I have them on my security camera. Tell people to not open the doors."

Hanging up I said, "Emergency services said there are no helicopters in the air from the military."

"Well get a video of it because its coming around," He said. "I want to know what we are dealing with."

"Same but we can't touch the game cameras unless its light," I said. "Wait. Camera 23. Remember we put it up to see how high the river rose. The camera is still active."

Grabbing my laptop I loaded camera 23 and gasped. Charles came up next to me and said, "What the hell."

I picked up my phone and called the non emergency line. When a officer picked up I said, "I need to speak with the sheriff now."

"Maam we understand your scared--" The officer started.

"Do not Maam me I have eyes on what these things are," I said. "You are never going to believe it. Give me an email to send a live link to the sheriff. I am already recording, actually it's running live on my youtube channel for a while already."

The Sheriff took the phone and said, "Katie this is a serious situation."

"Sheriff I know this and things went from bad to worse," I said. "Go to the 1123pm spot."

Charles and I were on my channel and saying this is happening live. On the screen there were humanoid creatures selling off their neighbors to alien looking creatures. We saw a big foot creature run through and grab a bunch of children and take off. We didn't see where he went until there was a knock on the back door and bigfoot was sitting there with five small children. The children were crying and I ran to the door and opened it. I said, "Bring anyone else you can rescue here we will keep them safe till sunrise."

He nodded and he explained to the Sheriff what was going on. He said, "We are settling the kids down. We will keep them safe and I am sure Bigfoot is enjoying rescuing people. Keep watching the screen and we will let you know how many people we have."

A little girl said, "They were in the shadows, taking all of us. They took my big sister and I can't find her."

Lifting her up I said, "We will do what we can to keep you safe. Hopefully, they can find your big sister."

She giggled and said, "Me too. She grabbed Daddy's gun and she knows how to use it."

Katie, Charles