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Something Dead in the Road

     You know that 'ecking' sound that cats make when they want to fight something? I always assumed it was a fighting thing at least.  I always catch Jonesy doing it out a window at squirrels, chipmunks, the neighborhood stray, our neighbors dog... you get the idea.  He doesn't understand that he probably wouldn't make it out there.  He has lived his entire life indoors, with little moments of leashed and monitored outdoor time.  I imagine he could probably take on a squirrel or a chipmunk, but he would certainly be mauled by the stray and could probably never hope to catch one of the birds he often watches so intently.  The panes of glass that he seems to resent so often are, in fact, what keep him safe.     My kid wasn't awake when I stepped out of my wife and I's room so I carefully walked down the stares to hopefully keep it that way. I like to wake up early before everyone else.  Make some coffee, watch a show Jamie won'...
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Motion in the Basement

 It was quiet, except for the dog barking, who knows how long he had been barking.  He was frozen, but only for a moment, as he slowly realized what had occurred before him.  Tiny fragments of glass littered the ground, strewn about with a great lack of regard for the otherwise tidy breezeway.  The door was cracked half open, not how it had been left that morning, its window shattered.  Each step ground the marble-like bits into the concrete, cracking and popping as his heart raced, and his adrenaline began to pump.  Something told him it was a bad idea, but he crept slowly to the trashcans which concealed a broken rusty breaker bar, gaze locked to the broken half-opened door.  The hinges creaked as he slowly pushed the door open with his left hand, right hand firmly gripping the eighteen inches of tempered steel.  Calling 911 should have been the first thing he did, but the first instinct to kick in preceded modern technologies, and felt primal....
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The Void

The Edge -It turns out we moved in next to a portal. Of course, we didn’t know that at the time, or else I imagine rent would have been a lot cheaper. These things started occurring everywhere over the last couple of years. The first one was in Florida, in some poor guy’s backyard. By the time we got ours last month, people weren’t really as scared of them anymore. They don’t really do anything unless you wander into one, or one happens beneath you without warning. When ours appeared, most of our community moved away, and the Lowes adjacent to the thing shut down. White tents popped up overnight and activity could be heard at all hours over the next few days, but they predictably found nothing and soon moved on. People were encouraged not to go near the thing, but nobody wanted to anyway. Despite not being particularly harmful from a distance, they still evoked a sense of unease and a dread of the unknown. Over the following weeks, more people migrated away from the thing until, ...
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