There's Something Under the Bed

by Allan Stratton
from Half-Minute Horrors,  edited by Susan Rich

"There's something under the bed."
     "Don't be silly.   You're a big boy now," his father said,
and turned out the light.
     "But there is!  Please, Daddy, look!"
     So his father got down in the dark beside the bed.




And disappeared.
     "Daddy?. . . Where are you, Daddy?"
     A gentle chuckle.  "I'm under the bed."
     "You sound different."
     "Do I?"





     "Yes.  Very different. . . . Are you really Daddy?"
     "Why don't you come under the bed and find out?"