Monster Sex

“I’m sorry,” the darkness said at last. “I ... I haven’t seen Bethany in so long. That part of me took over.” That part? “It ... it saw you, in her. You look so similar.”

“I, uh, I guess I’ll take that as a compliment. Gammy was pretty amazing.”

“She was amazing. Your ... your name, Beth? You are ... Jeremy’s daughter.”

“R-Right.” More silence, but at least the cold dread smothering her was fading away. Instead of cold, now things were awkward. Scary as fuck, and awkward. “I ... I uh ... I don’t know what to say,” she said. “How did you meet Bethany?”

The darkness folded like a big blanket, moving over itself, layers bending and mixing around the edges of the bed and along the walls.

“She found me. I was alone, for many ... many years. When this home was built, it unearthed me, and Bethany ... cared for me.”

How did someone care for a shadow monster? Details. She could ask about that later. And, thinking that there’d get to be a later managed to bring a smile to her lips. She wasn’t g