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then run for it.
     
    Arriving home tonight, there was no indication if Danny was home or not as he still had no car to be in the driveway. With the assumption that he was inside asleep I stepped out of the car and checked the mail. The B on my apartment mailbox was broken, making it look like an R. How I still got my mail was beyond comprehension and my laughable landlord could care less.
    I headed up the wooden creaky steps to the upstairs apartment. The door was unlocked, surprising me as we always locked it. As I entered cautiously, I saw Danny asleep on the sofa and let out of sigh of relief. Idiot! He knew to lock the door. He couldn’t been killed five times before he’d known someone was in here with him.
    I turned on the television and almost sat on Danny’s feet. Breaking News was playing as always. It was beginning to be the boy who cried wolf around here.
    Every day was news of the visitors or whatever was going on in the world that no one still seemed to actually see with their own eyes. This had to be the biggest hoax / exaggeration gone wild I’d ever seen. There probably wasn’t anything going on at all, some trick with the upper atmosphere that obscured the moons view or something and people just panicked and started putting pieces together than didn’t fit.
    Was H.G Wells reading ‘War Of The Worlds’ aloud somewhere? Maybe people were disappearing because they wanted to. Maybe they were scared or saw an opportunity. Whatever the reason, watching the news was pointless, yet there I found myself tuning in as I did every night like some mindless follower.
     
     
    “The new visitor sighting today came from downtown. A women, who’s name we won’t release for fear of her safety, claimed she was driving home when her car spun out of control and her husband’s side of the car was slammed into a telephone pole. She also claimed there was a visitor in the road and that’s why she had to swerve and lost control on the car, to miss him.
    “She stated her husbands body was mangled and bleeding and that there was no way he could’ve survived. Once she was out of the car and trying to flag someone down, her husband climbed out of the window, without a scratch and walked away from the scene, not speaking a word to her.
    “No one has reported seeing a man on the highway near the accident and after a look at the car from officials, they say there is no way this man could have survived that crash. The pole had come cleanly through the passenger side of the vehicle...”
     
    They showed what appeared to be an elderly woman who’s face was blotted out as the reporter asked her the dumbest question ever.
    “Ma’am. How do you feel about what’s happened here tonight?”
    “Well...my husband didn’t even speak to me. He just walked away, didn’t even look at me. He didn’t ask me if I was okay, he just didn’t care...” the woman answered in barely a whisper and then let it drift off as she turned to hide her face from the camera.
    Wow. Things were getting stranger and stranger.
     
    The knock on the door startled me.
    As I pushed Danny’s feet off my lap and marveled at how that kid could sleep through anything, I pulled the door open but kept the chain latched. Matt. Dang it. What I wouldn’t have given for a peep hole.
    “What Matt? Do you know what time it is?”
    “It’s only 8:30 Sherry. You haven’t turned into a grandma on me already have you?”
    “What do you want Matt?” I said crossing my arms over my chest and looking out beyond him into the parking lot.
    “I saw one of those things, a visitor. I wanted to give you the scoop. You can write a story about it.”
    “No thanks. I’m not a journalist, I’m a photographer.”
    I started to close the door but he wedged his foot inside.
    Was that alcohol I smelled? Again.
    “I know that! I just thought you might want to talk to me about it. Talk to someone who’s seen one for real.” His slurring wasn’t as bad as usual.
    “Nope,