nightmares of the sheets.

         The Disappearing Act

Toni and Wayne were having a fight that night about the mysterious disappearance of their kids

“You know I had to go to work, you are just an irresponsible mother!” shouted Wayne,

“If you had allowed me get a babysitter while I also worked, this wouldn’t have happened!!” Toni shot back. They paused after sighting one of the police forensics pass by their door. He came back immediately and inquired “is everything alright sir, ma’am?” Wayne nodded in the affirmative and then shot his eyes back to Toni…

“Now they’re gone, are you happy?”

“Where are all those b****s you call friends? Huh!!? Answer me! Where are they!?”

Sobbing Toni sank into the ground, with her back sliding on the door. After a few sniffs and sobbing, she walked into the sitting, “Wayne I’m sorry…” with her face down. “I don’t know why this has to happen to us… I mean… I…” She turned around… “baby…”

“Wayne?”….  No answer. Mysteriously Wayne was also gone. She screamed, just then the forensics who were working outside ran into the room,

“ma’am… what’s the problem?”

“… he… he…he” she sobbed, “Wayne’s gone.”

“What do you mean ma’am?” Just then they saw Wayne’s head roll out of the curtains, bloody all over, drooling with a sticky mass of mucus and saliva.

She screamed, grabbing the detective near her. The moment she held him she felt a smoky air around her and then some was strangling her, she was choking,

“Help!”  She screamed… Officers had been numbed, knocked out cold by a thing… unnoticed. They were still cold… as she was being choked, she jumped out of bed screaming, sweating all over. She turned to Wayne’s side of the bed. Gasping, she ran her manicured hands through his imprint on the sheets…

On hearing splashing water from the bathroom, she dashed off. Ripping the tub curtains apart, she held her scream in with her hands to her agape mouth…. The water dripping off the tub had the colour of blood in it…

Then she heard his voice from behind the tub… “honey, why didn’t you tell me the plumbing was this bad?” ”All this rust...”