This evening, we had a power outage. I went into my son’s room to get some candles from under his bed, and suddenly I discovered this.

The room was dead black, and I was already on edge. One wrong move, one wrong shadow, and my mind went racing. Then the flashlight beam caught it. A twisted, spiked, alien-blue thing lurking under the bed. My pulse spiked. My breath caught. I reached for it anyway, fingers trembling, brain screaming, “Don’t tou… Continues…