It's Under the Bed - More 100 word flash fiction horror. An ancient evil lurks amongst the dust and toys beneath a young boy's bed

It’s Under the Bed

Mummy says there’s nothing under my bed but dust and old toys. Daddy says the same, gets angry when I try and tell him. Hits me. Tells me to be a man.

I go to bed hurting. Trying to cry quietly so it doesn’t hear me. The thing under the bed.

It’s old, it tells me. Older even than my Granda. It’s seen everything, knows everything.

And it’s done bad things. Tells me about them, its croaky voice coming from under the bed. Chuckling as I quake.

It says soon it’ll take me to the bad place under the ground.