Nightmare Bed

As I laid in bed knees drawn up to myself I could feel the presence in the corner of the room. waiting. Watching for any sign that they could move in. The covers were drawn tight up over my head and the only light came from a moon that was hidden behind clouds.

As soon as the clouds covered the moon fully I felt them move closer to the bed and closer to me. although I couldn’t see them I still knew what they looked like, I could see them in my mind like a primal instinct of something to fear and something to avoid. The room was empty, just a large bed that offered no safety from the creatures and a door from their world into mine at the foot. The creatures themselves where pale imitations of us, pale skin and dark lanky hear hung in rats tails down their shoulders. Their teeth were filed into points and fingers long almost like the talons of certain birds of prey designed to grab slash and tear as they held you down.

The only solace was the sun somehow this had the power to save me and burn away any demons of the night. The sun is a primal force in the world, it has the power to burn away fears and heal the terrors of the night.

As the night wore on the creatures got braver and began to argue amongst themselves, the leader, a pale lanky creature with white rotten flesh, wanted to brave the brightening room to snatch me and bring me through the door to their realm of pain and terror but the other two held them back.

Although strong in their own world in ours they are weak and feed on fear, if we stay strong in our fears then they can gain no power over us. In the end, the leader won out and they began to creep forward on long spindly legs ready to snatch me from what was once the safest place. A place where as a child I could hide away and be protected from the world and all that it contained.

At this point, I was still under the covers silent barely breathing but I could still somehow see them creeping forward and surrounding me, I felt their weight on the bed as they edged towards me and began to peel back the only safety in the covers that I had.

Luckily as they got so close. Oh so close to snatching what could well have been my soul into a place that bears not thinking about the first rays of the sun finally burned away the terrors and the door into their realm and I was instead left with a normal bedroom with perhaps a few human shaped coats hung around the room.