"There's a man under my bed," Jake said. "After you and Daddy go to sleep, he comes out and talks to me."
"That's a dream, my sweet. You're having a dream." I kissed him on the forehead.
"Okay," he said, but I could tell he didn't believe me—or, more precisely, I could tell he knew I was wrong."
"Gone" is a horror story that appeared in The Thing in the Dark: An International Anthology of Micro Fiction, published by Fresh Words.
An slightly expanded, spoken-word version of this story can be heard in The Vampire Monologues.
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