HALLOWEEN 2021: when i used to dream nightmares | part two

I held my breath, terrified to make a sound.I did not know how I got here: lying on my stomach on the floor, under a bed which I first thought was my own… but this was not my room.Something moved in the shadows and I flinched, but then grew perfectly still as I caught the shimmer of eyes watching me, wide and scared.Other children.I was not alone.Several of us were hiding here, under the bed and with nowhere else to go.My heart pounding, I dipped my head a little lower and peeked out from ...