Am I Beautiful?

by Jon Athan

It was a strange sensation—to be haunted by a living person.

“Monsters are real. They’re not like the monsters you read about in your books or see in the movies. They’re like you and me—man and woman, adult and child, flesh and bone. I knew a monster once. I met him when I was a… princess… back when I was the most beautiful girl in the world.”

“My prince was a monster. I didn’t know it when I fell in love with him. I thought he was saving me from my loneliness. I thought he loved me. I really did.”

“But he didn’t love me. He took off his mask and showed me his teeth—those sharp monster teeth. He attacked me. He took my beauty. He took everything from me.”