late-night.
8 or 9 years old.
i live in a big room
that was supposed to be a garage
but was never built into one.
i have two huge windows.
i'm always afraid someone is going to
throw a chair through the window
come in and kill me.
active imagination
seeing things in the dark
(aliens, monsters, ghosts)
watching that episode of x-files
where the face pops out of the ceiling
did not help.
so
i periodically check through the blinds.
to see who is outside, if anyone.
one window looks into my sideyard,
the other out onto the street.
i check the sideyard, nothing.
i peer through the front window,
the tiniest crack, so no one can see me.
from the left walking to the right on the sidewalk.
i see two figures.
not humans.
figures.
all in glowing white.
giant dark black slits for eyes.
() ()
like cat pupils.
like someone had carved them out from a glowing white pillow case.
5-6-7 feet tall
they are looking straight, side by side. floating.
when the one closest to me turns in my direction.
no mouth, two small holes for a nose.
he looks at me,
and then at a superspeed
they appear at my window!
and i fall back onto the floor,
my blinds swaying back and forth as these two monsters look at me right in the face.
my blinds are swaying crazy.
black slit eyes staring.
and then.
the blinds halt.
as if they were never moved to begin with.
i run to my father.
he checks outside.
nothing.
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