short story I wrote for eng class

A warbling shriek sounded through the neighborhood, waking all the houses. Maiara jolted awake and got up from her bed, heading toward the window and checking for what had caused that horrible sound. Striated clouds covered the sky, the light barely penetrating through; nothing appeared out of the ordinary except for the small pool of what looked like moonshine on the neighbor's lawn. Maiara decided to investigate further: she opened her window and shimmied through the small opening it created, and jumped to the floor. She took note of the perforations on the road that didn't seem to be there before and made her way across the street. And that's when she realized: it wasn't moonshine on the neighbor's lawn. It was blood.

(we had to pick 5 words from a list of 10 to include in our story hence the highlights; there was a 150 word limit)