Warning: This story does reference or strongly imply child abuse, so please don't read if that is especially upsetting to you. The story does have a happy ending, but please don't read if getting there will cause you trouble. It's just an idea for a story I had that felt kind of powerful to me as I thought it up. Maybe I'll second guess myself for writing and posting it, but for now, here it is.

Teaser:

This is going to sound like a quirky little story. And maybe it is, in a way. But it’s also about monsters. The worst kind. So it’s also a horror story. It’s a lot of different stories.

It was a standard assignment for me. I’m a monster. He was a kid. I hide under the bed, or in the closet, or just manifest out of the darkness. Standard stuff, right? It pays the bills. Not that I really have any bills to pay.

There was just one problem. There were already monsters in the kid’s life.

His parents.

I won’t go into details. It just wasn’t a good scene, for me or the kid. This wasn’t what I had signed up for. Not that I actually signed up for anything, but I like phrases like that. It’s a kind of camouflage.

There are reasons for monsters like me in a kid’s life. Believe it or not, a bit of healthy paranoia and fear of the dark isn’t bad for a kid’s development. But this boy had enough of that in his life.

So instead of making noises under the bed or in the closet late at night, I decided to manifest one day as a little girl, about his age. I don’t know why. I guess I was feeling feminine that day. Protective and nurturing. I just appeared in his room, right in front of him.

He didn’t even flinch. Someone of my size and appearance and apparent age, even just magically appearing there, didn’t phase him. Not when there were literally much bigger things out there to scare him.

Full Script Here

Hopefully people heeded my warning and no one was hurt or offended by what I wrote. It was just a story idea that I suddenly had that basically wrote itself in the course of an hour or two. I'm sharing it after putting in hopefully all of the right tags and warnings to this. It's not a terribly sexy story, but hopefully it still fits within the scope of GWN. Mods, if not, please feel free to delete this. Or for any reason, really. I may just delete this myself after coming to my senses. But I'm a creature of impulse, and I thought others might find it a moving story despite it's negative elements.