Ezra loved anything sweet… But something has taken his hunger away, and it won’t let him go.
Ezra has everything… except an appetite.
What his distant parents dismiss as a "spoiled brat's tantrum" is, in reality, a death sentence. A hooded creature has claimed Ezra’s hunger, waiting patiently for the boy to waste away until his bones are ready to be picked clean.
His only hope lies in a nine-day rule he cannot break. In a world of shadows where no one hears his cries, only the housekeeper will try to save him—before the monster beneath the bed decides that Ezra is finally ready for dinner.
A dark short story set in the World of Blackwyn.