This Is Why I Let That Monster Into My Home, This Is Why I Let Him Have My Children

How could we be? My mother was a shell of the women she used to be. The mental torture she had undergone had broken something inside of her she’d never regain. But God, did she love me and try to heal to nightmares of those five years.

A full year passed before my mother dared ask Megan’s mom if Tommy was gone from their home as well.

He was.

The neighborhood was free, impossibly, unbelievably free from the monster that had terrorized us for five awful years.

I never understood what Tommy’s final words were to me…what they meant.

Until it was too late…

When I turned twenty-five I married Megan.

A year later we were expecting. You’ve heard the rest from my poor son…

God forgive me for having children…

God forgive me. Thought Catalog Logo Mark

THE THIRD PARENT by Elias Witherow is now available!
Read the whole story of Tommy Taffy here.

Elias is a prolific author of horror fiction. His books include The Third Parent, The Black Farm, Return to the Black Farm,and The Worst Kind of Monsters.

“Growing up reading the works of King, admiring the art of Geiger, and knowing fiends like Pinhead left me as a pretty jaded horror fan today. It takes a lot to get the breath to hitch in my throat and the hair on the back of my neck to stand on end.. My fiance is quite similar, so when he eagerly begged me to let him read me a short story about The Black Farm by Elias Witherow, I knew it had to be good… And I was not dissapointed. Elias has a way of painting a picture that you can feel with all your senses and plays the tunes of terror created when our world meets one much more dark and forces you to keep turning the pages hungry for more.” —C. Houser

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