As a kid I loved monsters, but avoided watching the movies because I would get nightmares!  We lived out in the middle of nowhere –no streetlights for miles!  The oak trees would cast the deepest shadows, hiding the monsters that waited around each tree trunk. 

One night my brother came upon a box that was marked “Finders Keepers”.  He ran home and led me to the spot where the box was.  It was in front of our neighbor’s house: Ted’s house.  Ted had two grown sons and this box was ...


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