This evening, we had a power outage. I went into my son’s room to get some candles from under his bed, and suddenly I discovered this.
Still, something about the situation refused to let go of me. My son kept laughing as he carried the strange blue object back to his room, but my heartbeat hadn’t completely settled. Maybe it was because the fear had felt so real. Maybe it was because, for a few seconds, I had genuinely believed something…