Are You Afraid of the Dark?

“Night mom!” She calls as she walks down the long hallway to her small dark bedroom.

Her mom calls something in response but the alcohol has already mixed into her blood causing her words to slur and become completely unintelligible not that it mattered. The girl simply ignores her mother, not even bothering to turn back let alone ask what she said. She continues into the calming darkness of her room.

Like other nights she shuts her door before turning around to flick on the over head light s...