Simoto quoted Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in …
There is Something Bad under the bed and it’s making those sounds. She’s certain that if she moves, the Bad thing will know she is awake. If it knows she is awake it will get her.
That’s how these things work: they wait until a person is awake enough to be scared, they wait until a person is conscious enough to hope for mercy, and then they don’t give any mercy at all.
— Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey (10%)