John McPherson
“I sense intruders.”
“Are you sure? Windows closed. Doors shut.”
“I heard the front door open. Someone’s entering.”
“Again? Why do they keep coming?”
“Probably on a dare. You know humans.”
“Look, a candle. A man and a woman.”
“You do it this time.”
“Jack, the candle went out.”
“I know, I felt a draft.”
John McPherson is an octogenarian who started submitting poems and other short works in his mid-seventies, and wrote this piece “just for the fun of it.”