I check into small hotel a few kilometres from Kiev. It is late. I am tired. I tell woman at desk I want a room. She tells me room number and give key. “But one more thing comrade; there is one room without number and always lock. Don’t even peek in there.” I take key and go to room to sleep. Night comes and I hear trickling of water. It comes from the room across. I cannot sleep so I open door. It is coming from room with no number. I pound on door. No response. I look in keyhole. I see nothing except red. Water still trickling. I go down to front desk to complain. “By the way who is in that room?” She look at me and begin to tell story. There was woman in there. Murdered by her husband. Skin all white, except her eyes, which were red.

I was dripping with an icy sweat. I woke up to my phone ringing. I leaned across my bed to grab it, it was Dad so I answered it. The voice from my phone came from the closet it started  crying “please let me go, let me see my daughter.” I hung up terrified but the noises didn’t stop they got louder then...BANG! a gunshot came from the closet  the closet.

I was dripping with an icy sweat. I woke up to my phone ringing. I leaned across my bed to grab it, it was Dad so I answered it. The voice from my phone came from the closet it started  crying “please let me go, let me see my daughter.” I hung up terrified but the noises didn’t stop they got louder then...BANG! a gunshot came from the closet.It was real this time. I figured it out when dad fell out of the closet dead...

Mommy told me never to go in the basement, but I wanted to see what was making that noise. It kind of sounded like a puppy, and I wanted to see the puppy, so I opened the basement door and tiptoed down a bit. I didn’t see a puppy, and then Mommy yanked me out of the basement and yelled at me. Mommy had never yelled at me before, and it made me sad and I cried. Then Mommy told me never to go into the basement again, and she gave me a cookie. That made me feel better, so I didn’t ask her why the boy in the basement was making noises like a puppy, or why he had no hands or feet.”