The monster lay in wait, casting long shadows over the cobblestones of Pond Street. It wore a pelt of dark gray shingles, warped and bristling from years of salt air and frigid winters. Two gable-eyes surveyed the patch of dead lawn out front; a wide porch smiled with missing spindles like broken teeth.
Against the dark gray countertop, the piece of white paper sat. At once ordinary and menacing. I'd become practiced at erecting walls around the thinking, feeling parts of myself. Learned to ignore the threats.
Robin Facer is a graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and spent fifteen years in the Los Angeles television market working as an editor, writer, director, and showrunner. Highlights of her TV career include delivering the pilot episode of TLC’s A Baby Story, spending nine hours crouched on the floor of an LAPD cruiser for Lifetime’s Slice of Life, and acting as the original showrunner for the landmark HGTV series House Hunters.