3-Year-Old Girl Cries Claiming a Monster Is Under Her Bed

Here’s a much shorter version that preserves the core meaning and emotional arc: While all of Manhattan slept, Samantha Wells, a children’s book author, stayed up struggling with writer’s block. Her kids, Julia and Jacob, were asleep—until 3-year-old Julia turned on the lights, scared of a “monster” under her bed. Samantha comforted her, suspecting it […]