When Timmy was a small child his parents died suddenly leaving him orphan. It didn’t bother him at first, because he didn’t really know what an orphan was. But late one night he heard a monster tapping on his bedroom window. He began crying but no one came, no one except the monster. The monster crawled around the empty house and Timmy lay frozen in fear. In the morning he’d wake up and the monster would be gone.
Later while in the foster home Timmy had dreams. The monster would sneak up behind him at dinner time and drag him away. No one would notice, they’d all just keep on eating. Every home he went to the monster would come and drag him away. No one ever noticed.
By the time he became an adult and joined the military the monster had stopped coming for him. It took Timmy a while to realize, it was because the monster was now him.
