Tooth Faerie

We all remember losing our teeth when we were young. Promises of money, coming from the mystical tooth faerie. They paid you a visit while you slept, and gave you a small reward. But have you ever SEEN this being? Thank the gods you havent.

It was August.. I was living alone with my two sons, Luke and James, aged 4 and 7 respectively. James was very excited as he had a loose tooth. He knew what that meant. Money from the Tooth Faerie. He spent all day wiggling it, trying to free its grasp. Until one day... POP! Luke ALSO knew what that meant. His brother would get cash that night, and he would not. He was very jealous, and came up with a plan. Gathering some small white pebbles from the yard, he placed two under his pillow to await his reward. That night, both of my baby boys went to sleep content. James was awoken that night by what he could only describe as a horrible crunching sound. It was coming from his brothers room. The pure shock of what he saw when he opened that door may have just been his imagination. But he claims he saw the being itself. Demonic claws, a long slender body, like that of a man who had not eaten for days. Wings that looked like a giant bat. It turned around to him and put a finger up to its mouth to shush him. Its smile, James said, consisted of all of Lukes bloody teeth.

James and I moved immediately, and my poor James was placed in an institution to recover from his night terrors. As we packed up to move however, i found something that still haunts me to this day.

A five dollar bill under James pillow, with the words DONT LIE scrawled in blood on the front.