He'll Billy Horror Stories Presents

Eerie Encounters

As a four-year-old, I hated tying my shoes.

I was terrible.

I didn't progress.

It was just not happening.

One morning I was still in a fit because my mom told me to tie my shoes before we let

the house.

I was trying to avoid this horrible responsibility while crying and screaming up on the fourth

step of the staircase.

The ceiling above the staircase extended from the second floor horizontally to the

space above the first step.

There it met a vertical wall that connected the second floor ceiling to that of the first.

So if you would imagine a big upside-down hill.

So my punk asked the screaming in one of the lower steps and my gaze drifts upward after

a few minutes.

I stopped crying immediately and I go silent.

I distinctly remember seeing a man in a sharp black suit with the head of a boar.

It had to tusk and defer and everything, but it was blue.

This creature was bracing itself in the corner of the ceiling like a ninja right above my

head staring down at me.

He didn't say anything to me, but I know what he wanted.

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