The Gathering Darkness

"As he stared into the dark silence, peering above the sandbags out past the security fence and down the driveway, a flash of lightning lit up the yard. In that brief millisecond of daylight there appeared to be a man standing in the driveway by the front gate. George felt his heart start to race and a cold chill run through his body. He continued looking, searching for some movement, anything, but it was too dark to see a thing and then the lightning flashed again. This time he could see t...