1. As I’m getting him ready for night, he says, “Daddy, look beneath my bed for monsters.” For his pleasure, I peek below the bed and see him, another him, tremblingly peering out at me while muttering, “Daddy, there’s somebody on my bed.”
2. I can’t move, breathe, speak or hear and it’s so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely, I would have been cremated instead.
3. I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I though it was the window until I heard it come from the mirror again.
4. It sat on my shelf, with thoughtless porcelain eyes and the prettiest pink doll dress I could find. Why did she have to be born still?
5. The grinning face stared at me from the darkness beyond my bedroom window. I live on the 14th floor.
6. There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone.
7. They delivered the mannequins in bubble wrap. From the main room I begin to hear popping.
8. She asked why I was breathing so heavily. I wasn’t.
9. My daughter won’t stop crying and screaming in the middle of the night. I visit her grave and ask her to stop, but it doesn’t help.
10. My wife woke me up last night to tell me there was an intruder in our house. She was murdered by an intruder 2 years ago.
11. The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.
12. After working a hard day I came home to see my girlfriend cradling our child. I didn’t know which was more frightening, seeing my dead girlfriend and stillborn child, or knowing that someone broke into my apartment to place them there.
13. You hear your mom calling you into the kitchen. As you are heading down the stairs you hear a whisper from the closet saying “Don’t go down there honey, I heard it too.” \
14. I never go to sleep. But I keep waking up.
15. Nurse’s Note: Born 7 pounds 10 ounces, 18 inches long, 32 fully formed teeth. Silent, always smiling.
16. I always thought my cat had a staring problem, she always seemed fixated on my face. Until one day, when I realized that she was always looking just behind me.
17. I kiss my wife and daughter goodnight before I go to sleep. When I wake up, I’m in a padded room and the nurses tell me it was just a dream.
18. The pairs of emaciated eyes outnumber the single round in my gun. With pleading tears falling on her doll’s hair, I point the barrel at my last surviving daughter.
19. The knife, it slices — just like butter. I tried to be a loving mother.
20. I found a journal in the attic, detailing every day of my life up until today. The last entry simply read, “Tomorrow, the story will be complete."
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