Creepy mini- fiction for Halloween mini-contest

[hwango]

There's a monster in my basement. On really quiet nights I can hear its claws clicking on the concrete as it paces back and forth. You might think the sounds were just the furnace, but you'd be wrong.

I worry about it breaking out, coming up here, and eating me. It's definitely the kind of monster that eats people.

At least, it eats the corpses that I throw down there. It snarls at me every time I open the door, though. You'd think it would be more grateful for the food.

Maybe it knows that I'm just fattening it up.