Seed

by Ania Ahlborn

“I saw it, Daddy,” she told him, lowering her voice so her mom wouldn’t hear. “I saw it before the lights went out. I saw it just like you.”

Those eyes were the same eyes he’d seen just before the Saturn lifted off the road and flew through the sky. They were the eyes that changed his life forever. Jack knew those eyes, and it terrified him that they had found him again.

“Don’t be scared, Mommy,” she said. “At least you still have Abigail.”

“He’s here to play,” she told him. “He said you never finished the game.”

“I know it sounds crazy,” the sheriff told Stephen, “but that boy of yours didn’t seem human. He looked like the devil had gone ahead and eaten his soul right out of his body.”