The Thing Behind The Mantelpiece

Quentin Norris
10 min readAug 4, 2021
Photo by Thomas Bormans on Unsplash

“Oh my God, Lenny. You scared the hell out of me.”

“Sorry.”

“Another bad night of sleep again I guess?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay Lenny, listen I’m more than happy to have you living back here at the family home with me and I want nothing more than to give you whatever you need right now. I know you’ve had a hard year but you have to start…

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Quentin Norris

Writer, filmmaker, and comedy performer living in Winston-Salem NC. I write fantasy, horror, flash fiction, and film/television/music reviews.