Micro-Story #1 (Patreon)

There are a lot of sounds in Anja's house. 

Like the clicking of the heater, or the soft squeaking of the one untethered window blind that gently swings in the gusts of night air.

Like the creaking of the floorboards when somebody is slowly walking about, her parents fast asleep in their beds.

Anja will usually get out her little friendship book; the one she routinely brings with her to dance classes and school; where she lets all the other little girls put down their names and what they like and hate and loooove.

One of them will come for a sleepover, and everything will be a lot less scary like that; when someone else is there to giggle and whisper, so nobody has to hear the sounds all around them.

She sleeps a lot easier those nights, even though it always is a bother to find new friends when the old ones go missing in the morning.

But at least the house will be sated.

At least the floorboards stop creaking.