The four kids huddled around the small flame of the candle, hoping their bodies would be enough to shield the tiny flame from the massive winds. "So." One of them, a small boy with mousey brown hair and eyes to match, started. "We know that all of us see the monster differently." "Yes." The kid next to him, a smaller girl with wide, blue eyes and blonde pigtails agreed. "I've never seen a snake so big!" "Right." A second boy with curly, ginger hair and blue eyes responded. "And I saw a big, big dog." "The first boy spoke again to bring up, "I saw my doctor with a needle bigger than his arm." The ginger boy looked at the last child, a girl with short, brown hair and green eyes. "What did you see, Adeline," he asked her. She looked up from where she had been playing with a bug, trying to get it to crawl onto a stick she'd found nearby. "Oh, I-I haven't see...
Original short stories by Robin J. Harrison, an upcoming author working on his first novel in his spare time.