The Hot Seat
This sound woke me up, banging against the wall, and I thought it was a branch, or something. I was having this dream, where I was back home, and the wind was blowing. Making the tree beat the against the wood siding, but it sounded wrong. So then I woke up. In my room, at my dad’s apartment. It was weird, because I hadn’t spent the night there before. He was taking me to church in the morning, and it was close to midnight, but the knocking continued. So, I got up to look out the window, and saw a rope ladder swinging. I looked up, but with the window closed, I couldn’t see much of anything but the blinds. So, I pulled those up, and wide awake, I undid the latch at the top. …