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A monster crawls along the pink carpeted floor of a little girl’s room.
Usually when you think of a monster, you think of
something taller than a tree
with sharp teeth,
a huge mouth,
and sharp claws.
But this monster was different.
Its hair was a
mellow brown, its teeth were
flat and yellow, yet jagged, and its fingernails
seemed to look chewed off.
It almost seemed
human. Uncanny.
But the little girl didn’t seem to notice that.
She saw a monster.
She shakes beneath the covers of her bed,
her once safe room now intruded on by a
stranger.
The monster closes the door with a soft
click,
locking the two of them in.
Locking out anyone else.
It crawls to the edge of the little girl’s bed,
its oversized clothes barely clinging to its body,
swaying aimlessly.
The little girl screams,
but the monster quickly takes off the singlet and
wraps it around the girl’s face,
muffling any sound she makes.
The little girl can’t breathe.
The monster can’t breathe.
Nothing breathes.
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A mother is woken up in her bed beside her unconscious husband.
She hears a muffled scream from down the hallway.
Frightened, she immediately gets out of bed and peers down it.
She doesn’t remember closing her little girl’s bedroom door after
saying goodnight.
She hears a bang on her window.
She turns her head.
She is frightened
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at the sight of her child in someone else’s arms.