Monster: What's hiding under your bed?

Where are you, teddy?

The girl felt around with arms and legs. Not under the sheets anywhere, and not tucked up in bed. Naughty teddy! He must’ve fallen on the floor.

The girl pushed her head over the edge of the bed, looked down in the dim light, and saw him straight away. There you are! I can see your furry leg, sticking out from underneath the bed.

But then a thought made her shiver, like a cold breath down her back. I can’t swing my legs out from under the blankets, because the monster under the bed will get me.

So the girl reached, fingers squirming, down from the safety of her bed. Almost, almost there! Stretching forward, she reached and reached, and snagged him by the paw, snatching him back into bed. She held him tight, wriggling to slip back underneath the quilt. But there it was again, that cold feeling, making her turn towards the bedroom window, which yawned open like a black mouth onto the darkness.

Then the girl was gone, and teddy found himself all alone. No protection against the monster, who hadn’t been hiding under the bed after all.