“Mommy, I’m scared. Is there a ghost in the house?”

“I don’t think there is, Evie. Why do you ask?”

“Well, sometimes when I go into the kitchen, I get chills running up and down my spine.”

“Junior! For the last time! Quit dropping ice cubes down your sister’s dress.”

John H. Dromey has a story in the anthology A Kiss Is Still a Kiss (Next Step Books, 2015).