They Never Go Away

Quentin Norris
14 min readApr 18, 2021
Photo by janan lagerwall on Unsplash

Everyone is frightened of something irrational.

If you ever meet someone who tells you they don’t scare easily or nothing makes them uneasy, then they’re either a liar or they aren’t looking hard enough. We all have our fears, our paranoid nightmares, the things that make our hearts race when an unfamiliar bump in the night is heard. None of these things can ever hurt us in reality, not always, anyway. They’re like Familiars. We…

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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.