Twisted Reunion by Tullius Mark

Author:Tullius, Mark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vincere Press
Published: 2015-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

Hit the Lights

A low squeak woke Teddy. He thought the noise had come from the mouse in his dream, a furry little rodent cornered by a cat. Another squeak. It was coming from somewhere in his room.

Teddy wasn’t about to take the covers off his head. He concentrated on the new noise; a high-pitched screech that penetrated the bound-up nerves in Teddy’s little back. The sound his parents’ closet door made whenever he inched it open to peek at his gifts.

Just as he would if it were one of his mom’s sacks from Sears, Teddy had to look. If something was coming for him, he needed to know. Thanks to his broken leg, he couldn’t run away, but if he saw something, he could scream for help.

Ever so slowly, Teddy pulled the comforter off his head. The second his eyes were exposed, the squeaking stopped. He sat up in the bed, kept the comforter pulled tight against his neck, ready to snap it over his head if anything leapt out from the darkness.

Teddy looked toward the closet door, half expecting to see a set of razor sharp teeth, but his eyes hadn’t adjusted to the pitch black of his room and he couldn’t see past the foot of his bed. The light of the moon would have illuminated everything if he hadn’t closed the shutters and pulled down the blinds. He was too much of a chicken to leave his window open; the thought of only one pane of glass between him and the demons lurking outside was enough to keep Teddy up for hours. He knew if he left the shutters open and the blinds up, he’d wake with a creature’s face pressed against the glass. That thought alone was the reason Teddy’s mom had to wash his sheets twice a week.

Like every other kid from the neighborhood, Teddy hated the dark. That’s when all the bad stuff happened in their tiny town. No one went outside at night, not even the adults. You didn’t leave your doors unlocked. And above all, you didn’t let evil watch you sleep. Tina Jonas and Danny Kincaid found that out. So did Ricky Oliver.

Teddy looked toward the window, saw the shutters still shut. Another squeak from the closet. He jerked his head toward the sound, ready to scream for his mom. He didn’t want to wake her again, but that was a hell of a lot better than ending up in one of the bags they’d found by the Harlen River.

Now that his eyes had adjusted to the darkness, Teddy could see the Obi-Wan Kenobi poster above his dresser. The closet next to it was open. A six-inch strip of blackness stood out against the pale white wall. He never left it open and checked it at least twice every night before he crawled into bed.

He waited for the closet door to move again, and noticed his wheelchair leaning against the bedroom door. When he’d gone to sleep, it’d been just to the left of his bed.

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