Horror Short Showcase: ‘Where Monster Hides’

Written by Scott Edwards 

It can be interesting to see where your mind was when you were a child. With a different type of storytelling, not judged by anyone but yourself, you could pull ideas out of anywhere without fear. But what if those stories you were telling yourself, or your family, had an ounce of truth to them, much less a look into your future? It is hard to remember what you were thinking when writing your stories back in the day and it could not hurt to pull them out and try to get back into the same mind set, just don’t be too frightened with what you might find.

Getting back from his nightly run, Beto checks his mail and finds a letter from his mother. Opening it up and finding an old book that he wrote when he was seven, he gives his mother a call to thank her for sending it. With the title of the book being, Where Monster Hides, Beto is shocked at how dark the book really is, but remembers he was in therapy when he wrote it. As his mom gets a call from her sister, Beto lets her go and starts reading the old instructions on where the monster hides.
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With the first passage involving the kitchen, where it is sticky, Beto checks out under the sink to see that he has a leaky bottle of cleaning solution. Cleaning that up, he moves to his bedroom, but something starts to catch his eye as the bedspread in his book matches exactly to the one that is on his current bed.  Checking under the bed to make sure that the monster was not hiding there, Beto continues with his nightly routine and goes to brush his teeth. Reading the next passage that has to do with the shower, once again he notices that the illustrations in his book match exactly to what his shower curtains are.  Turning off the light, Beto notices a movement coming from the curtains and it continues until he gets up the nerve to check it out. Finding nothing and getting a call back from his mother, Beto is not afraid to admit that he is a little on edge, but his mother is there to walk him through to the end. Sending one more late night text to remind Beto to call her if things get too scary in the last chapter, Beto feels the need to finish the book, but has no idea what that may entail.

Just a basic story designed to remind you and warn you about what you might have seen as a child and how you would have protected yourself, whether it be in writing, or hiding behind your mom. It always seems that kids are more in tune to what is really going on around them than adults, who just shut it off. Admitting to himself that he was a bit dark as a child, Beto has laid out the road map to where the monster hides, but little did he know that it would be looking for him in his adult life. With some rhyming verses, something sticky, something grabby, something showery, something closetey, and something in the darky, this horror short really hits all the places the monster should be hiding and lets just pray that it does not come to find us all after watching. Stay Scared.

See ‘Where Monster Hides’ on Amazon Prime Video.  

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