Bedtime Story by Ed Ahern

Be careful when you wake

in the hours just after midnight

for you have ebbed and the night surges.

Be careful if you wander

into different seeming rooms

for the other things that prowl.

Be careful of the noise in darkness,

in the creaks and cracks and rattles,

for not all menace holds its tongue.

Be careful, oh be careful

in stepping from your bed

for what you fear has come.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over two hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and five books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of four review editors. 

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