Stuff my kids have done that creep me out – Therapy may be called for, but I’d rather just see what happens!

10) Suddenly appearing in the room staring at me.

9) Waking up to them standing over me staring.

8) Pretending to eat imaginary food and then pretending to feed invisible people.

7) Suddenly looking up from the floor, leaning out to look around my chair, waving, and whispering “bye bye” to something behind me.

6) Waking up to the sound of screaming in the middle of the night

5) Asking me if I think ghosts are hungry.

4) Walking up and talking to a blank wall.

3) Telling me they dreamed someone took their face off and stuck it on our wall.

2) Using a plastic fork and knife to pretend to cut up and eat my leg.

1) Whispering in the back seat, “But I don’t want to kill daddy.” “What?” I said. “Nothing,” he answers, “I’m just playing.”

Jay Wilburn

Jay Wilburn has a Masters Degree in Education that goes mostly unused since he quit teaching to write about zombies. Jay writes horror because he tends to find the light by facing down the darkness. His is doing well following a life saving kidney transplant. Jay is the author of Maidens of Zombie Kingdom a young adult fantasy trilogy, Lake Scatter Wood Tales adventure books for elementary and middle school readers, Vampire Christ a trilogy of political and religious satire, and The Dead Song Legend. He cowrote The Enemy Held Near, Yard Full of Bones, and The Hidden Truth with Armand Rosamilia. You can also find Jay's work in Best Horror of the Year volume 5. He is a staff writer with Dark Moon Digest, LitReactor, and the Still Water Bay series with Crystal Lake Publishing.

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