Jody Keisner, "Under My Bed and Other Essays "
English | ISBN: 1496230477 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. As a young adult living alone for the first time, she began a nighttime ritual of checking under her bed each night, not sure who she was afraid of finding. An intruder? A monster? Her father? Keisner's fears mature as she becomes a wife and mother, and the boogeyman under the bed shape-shifts, though its shapes are no less frightening-a young aunt's drowning, the "chest chomp" in the classic horror movie