Tim Paul -- What Lives Under My Bed

I slept many nights with my head under the covers, under the belief that if I couldn't see the monsters, they couldn't see me, and I would not experience a painful death.

These nights often happened after watching various monster movies all day long on Saturday, or after going to the local drug store and reading the Horror/Gore magazines, like Fangoria. 

I never put a face to the things I felt lived under my bed. It was enough to know that bloody death awaited for me, if we ever made eye contact.