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9/11 Short Stories

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We’ve all heard the creaking floors when we were sleeping, the footsteps we pretend are the shifting of the foundation, the movement in the mirror we blame on our imagination, the distorted figures of monsters we soon realize are just piles of clothes. But what if it wasn't just our imagination? What if it was all real? The depraved monsters in our closets. The demons under our beds. “But that was nonsense,” thought Scarlett “just myths people tell children to scare them.”
Perhaps it was just the fear of staying home alone for the weekend that brought about a sense of unease. She quickly got home that night, locked all the doors, and put on the TV to distract her frenetic mind from conjuring paranoid sophistries. Quietly, Scarlett sat on

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