perkyrusalka, posts by tag: childhood fears - LiveJournal (original) (raw)
The boogeyman, global thermonuclear war, being forced to eat broccoli—there's a lot to be afraid of when you're a kid. What was your biggest childhood fear?
The bathroom in the house I grew up in had a little window way up high above the bathtub. It was frosted, and even if it hadn't been, it was 5 or 6 feet up and faced the backyard. Nevertheless, when I was little, I was convinced that a skeleton was going to climb in through that window and "get" me-whatever that meant. For years I took baths staring up at that little window, watching for anything moving in the dark.