When I was a kid, I still remember
From a memory of some distant December
On a holiday visit to Nanabhai’s home

Under the dining table downstairs
Under the towering creaky old chairs
Was an old trapdoor of rusted chrome.

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Its protests echoed the empty halls
While the dreary winter beyond the walls
Pushed me into an abyss that called
Somewhere to the heart of the house

A yellow sun in darkness abound
Circling around as in a dream that could drown
When my gaze was broken by the sound
of breathing.

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When I asked who it was, it stopped
In the black silence, I felt my heart drop
Until I noticed its eye, smiling broadly at me
And say... “Friends?”

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Fahim Anzoom Rumman is an artist and a writer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the creator of the comic books Nidranogor and Mofizuddin, the artist on the board game Polashi, and has worked previously for The Daily Star’s “Rising Stars” magazine. He is a lover of sequential art and animation, and everything horror. // instagram goodreads