Even at the age of ten, my daughter still asks me to count her fingers and toes before bed. After I count them aloud, I plant a kiss on her forehead and tell her goodnight.

As she stows the shoebox beneath her bed, I think, “Kids collect the oddest things.”

Anneliese Boyd is an upstate New Yorker, born and raised, who currently finds herself working and residing in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex of North Texas. Her short horror fiction has been featured on the NoSleep Podcast and she was a featured author in Splatter Ink Publishing’s anthology, “Cryptid Carnage”. For more information about Anneliese and her work, visit her website: https://annelieseaboyd.wixsite.com/annelieseaboyd. Check her out on Twitter at @a_a_boyd.