Saved from the Water's Edge

I saved a kid's life last night and nobody believes me. I was driving past

Riverside Park around 2AM when I saw this little boy, maybe six years old,

standing alone by the fence. Something felt wrong. The air was too cold,

too thick. I pulled over and walked towards him. That's when I saw her.

A woman in a white dress floating three feet behind him, her face twisted, arms reaching for

his shoulders. The kid was frozen, eyes glazed over, walking backwards towards the lake.

I didn't think. I just ran and grabbed him. The second I touched him,

he snapped out of it and started screaming. The woman's face contorted with rage, she let out this