It was dark, midnight black. Everything was. It always was.
It was my room, but it wasn’t…not anymore. It hadn’t been for a long time. It was sparse. Empty. Nothing on the walls, not even color. Blank.
A dream or a nightmare; I didn’t know which.
I heard…nothing. It was safe to move. I exited the room, my feet sliding across the hardwood.
I stumbled through the dark. My hands found the wall and I followed it to the open space of the living room. An eerie glow appeared, shining through the window, illuminating little, but it wasn’t enough to create shadows.
They moved against the wall, sending shivers through me.
I knew the place, or I had known it. It had been many years since I was last here. Since I last saw…
“Dad…”
Slap!
My head was flung to the side, my body twisting with the
