She gazed up at the clock. “He comes out for me because he wants to. We talk; I tell him things. Of course, I’d like to have him upstairs in my room, but it wouldn’t be right.”
Year: 2020
Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
The wub watched him. Presently it padded out of the room, edging past the Captain. It went down the hall, deep in meditation.
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I saw the very face which had visited me in my childhood at night, which remained so fixed in my memory, and on which I had for so many years so often ruminated with horror, when no one suspected of what I was thinking.