“There’s nothing under your bed Kelly.”
“But I heard it, the sloshing noise.”
“Now dear, you were told not to watch that movie with Carter.”
“But Mommy, there was no sloshing noise, it was just some stupid doll that–”
“Kelly, Mommy can’t stay up all night with you, I need my beauty sleep.”
“Mommy, can’t you sleep with me for a while?”
“No Kelly.”
“Please Mommy,” tears wetted Kelly’s eyes from anxiety.
“Oh Dear, Mommy will lie with you, don’t worry.”
Meredith kissed her daughter on the forehead. She stared into Kelly’s chocolatey eyes until her daughter slipped into a peaceful slumber. Meredith waited a while before she gently rose from the bed, careful not to alarm her resting daughter. She took a step towards the door and returned to Kelly, who was sleeping soundly. She smiled at her daughter and lovingly brushed the hair from her forehead. She turned toward the bedroom door, took two steps and then hesitated. She returned her stare to her daughter. A thought entered her mind and she rolled her eyes agitated with her nonsensical thought. Still, the thought was planted, it would not leave her alone. She shook her head again. She knelt on the carpeted floor and lifted the dust skirt to peer under the bed. She couldn’t make out anything under the bed in the darkness. She let the skirt hang before she detected a putrid odor omitted from under the bed. She looked up again at her daughter. She lifted the skirt once more and peered closer to the bed rail. The odor was more prevalent, but Meredith could not detect anything, although the carpet was moist with a slimy film. “What has this child–?” A thick flabby arm wrapped around Meredith’s head and effortlessly snapped it from her shoulders, The body twitched a moment from an impulse before it lay lifeless. The creature began feeding on the mother, slosh, slosh, slosh.
After reading the preceding description, write for forty minutes about a terrifying episode that could be featured in your horror story. Submit whatever you have written, completed or not, to Google Classroom after forty minutes.