“Dad said that I should have grown out of it and that I was getting too old for him to check under my bed before turning the lights off at night and I guess I was. Then came the night I said, ‘Don’t check under the bed.’ He smiled and said, ‘Atta boy,’ as he punched at the air. It wasn’t that I wasn’t terrified, it was just that I knew what was there.”
It’s hard to live with a secret, a secret you can’t tell anyone, not even your best friend, Melinda who lives next door. It sticks in your head and feels like a wall separating you from everyone else, at least that’s my excuse when the teacher asks if I am listening in class. But, how can you explain that what’s under your bed is a portal to another world where Doorby the Galen lives, who is a creature unlike any we have on Earth and who lives in fear of something much worse.