COLANDERS AND THE KALLIKANTZAROI

she/we saw IT

bloated sausage body scorpion pinchers countless daddy-long-leg-like-legs on Yaya's chest twitching on Yaya's chest arched twitching daddy-long-leg-like-legs on Yaya's chest and Yaya screams and it LEAPS to the windowsill compressing impossibly thin under the window and is gone into the oily shadows as Daddy and Mommy are running down hall and Yaya's not breathing

no one ever believed me that it was real and not a nightmare

Johnny did not notice the cold water splashing his sandaled feet as his face emerged from the coffin-cold water; his memories shattered by the shouts:

"Fish on! Get the net!"

Johnny pushed open the door; Tim's rod was bent and his arms were taut with strain.

Johnny looked at his friend, tethered by monofilament to a denizen of the deep, and he recognized the tableau. The Aegean is the wellspring of all waters; and creatures of the abyss wait for those who believe.