The baby would cry all nights. He spent all nights just weeping, stopless, unceasingly. John and Mary, their parents, didn't understand what was wrong with the kid. Suddenly, one night Mary's mother came for a visit and slept with her grandson in the room. The baby slept all night without producing any single sound.
"My mother is an expert in babysitting", explained Mary the next morning. "She'll have to move in here... It's for our child's sake".
John felt desparate, but he didn't have the courage to say what he actually thought, to say a word against his mother-in-law, who apart from everything was the ugliest person he had ever met. Exactly, that was the key: all the night creatures that frightened the child at night were afraid of Mary's mother. Yes, that was a logical explanation... The room monsters were afraid of his mother-in-law, even more than himself.
Frantz Ferentz, 2013
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