"There's Nothing Under the Bed"--Nightmarish Story from Odder Than Ever

Sprouting from the fear of "a monster under the bed," a kid, David, realized that there was something wrong under his bed. He had rolled a ball under his bed one night, and heard a popping sound and started to cry because he knew nothing about the weird gray cloud under his bed that took his ball. Though he understood that things simply disappeared under his bed, he assumed that was just the way the world was. No question. When he tried to tell his parents and brought them into his room to see, the gray cloud disappeared. David realized that the cloud vanished when grown-ups were around. It was frustrating, he was ignored, and even sent to a place to get "special help." Like a miracle, David managed to live with the nothingness under the bed. But he still didn't know the powerful potential of it, until it swallowed his beloved cat, Fluffy. Alas, Fluffy would never have gotten under the bed if David's cousing Harold hadn't been there. Harold, an elephant of a child, as David describes, had created a game called "Kitty Elephant." Basically, it was a game where you had to but a long sock on Fluffy's face, so she looked like a ridiculously furry elephant and laugh hysterically as you watched her try to get out of it. But while playing, Fluffy got too close to the bed. There was a popping sound, and she disappeared.
But she returned--quite the opposite of the cat she was before.
Midnight struck. Fluffy opened her eyes. They were red, blazing with their own light. "Weztix wants you, David," she said. "He wants you under the bed."
David screamed. As usual, his parents didn't pay attention.
Fluffy jumped back into the gray cloud under the bed. But there was more than just a gray cloud under the bed now. There was a blue circle, and from it, came a cold, damp hand. The hand grabbed David and began to pull him under the bed, into the blue circle. He slid into the circle, fell through, and landed in an evil henchman's hand. The henchman dragged him to Weztix. He learned he was in the land of nightmares. Weztix was the Lord of Nightmares, and the gray nothingness under his bed was a weak spot between reality and the land of nightmares. And David was made to train to become something like the henchman--someone evil who would drag others down to follow the same fate--especially kids.