Why must it lurk in darkened closets with gnarled fingers pale, cold, and clammy or just beyond the bulb's flickering glow at the bottom...

Be sure to replace your hiking boots every 300 miles or so for optimal comfort huffs Gary, your trusty guide. It’s cold comfort to your...

Having replaced without catastrophe my sleeping daughter's blanket, I wonder as I ease shut her bedroom door what unknown visitors have...

Check the windows Check the locks Check the basement — what’s in that box? Did you bring it in? ‘Cause I sure didn’t. I think I’d...

Sometimes that thing in the corner is just your cat’s scratching post Other times that thing in the corner is already halfway to you...

Scuttling forth each quarter moon from the darkest depths of our once-proud heritage; that coal-choked, aching abyss Them we dare not...

wanna know how your Aunt Margot really died? The words wander over from the other side of Margot’s old room above Gramma’s detached...

We awoke to a bloody mess in our front yard Julie tells me that Wikipedia says that coyotes can be especially aggressive during mating...

She came to our doorstep one blustery, snow-swept afternoon looking for a playmate I didn't think twice plus laptop-addled Mother had...

My daily bedtime doomscroll done I roll and reach for my charging cord way down there on the floor As my fingers fumble through deep-pile...