Literature
Theme Prompt -Boogeyman
"This has got to be a dream, this can't be real," I kept muttering to myself as I was cowering in a corner in my bedroom. Something had been chasing me, something dark and frightening. I knew that if it caught me, I would be nothing. It would swallow me, mind, body, and soul and there would be no proof that I had ever existed at all.
I didn't hear anything for an indeterminate amount of time. Whatever it was had great, stomping footsteps, so I could tell that it wasn't anywhere near my room. Slowly, so slowly I could feel my bones creaking, I got up from my corner. I slunk over to the door, pressing my ear against it and listening hard. Ther