Rebecca dropped the kids off with an explanation that she had to run some errands. No need to give the family additional cause for concern, she reasoned. She headed to the town’s library, a place she had not yet visited. “This ought to be interesting,” she thought, wondering just how she was going to find [...]
Continue Reading...Etta stood in the doorway. “Stop it, Alfred, you’re scaring them beyond reason and they need to keep their wits about them,” admonished his wife. “You know I’m only trying to warn them. They don’t have any idea what they’ve walked into. Just like the last family” replied Alfred, exasperated. Alfred sat down in the [...]
Continue Reading...As I ponder the implications of that phone call, Mom taps me on the shoulder and I jump a foot! “Sorry,” Mom said quietly, patting me on the back. I put off going in to work long enough. As I head out the door, I stopped to look myself in the mirror. In spite of [...]
Continue Reading...The tension is mounting — everyone pretends to be concentrating on the task at hand but there’s no denying the usual signs. Quietly, our higher functioning brains are working feverishly to deny what our primitive brains have already registered — fear. The kind that has the hair on the back of your neck standing up, [...]
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