Rona Vaselaar
Rona Vaselaar is a graduate from the University of Notre Dame and currently attending Johns Hopkins as a graduate student.
I Live In The Darkness And It Lives With Me
With time, I forgot the nightmare. Or, rather, stopped thinking about it. I don’t think I can ever forget a sight that awful, but the image dulled over time. But that coldness always stayed imprinted on my mind. The farm was never a warm place again for me.
This Mysterious Box Contained Everything About My Past, But No One Knew How To Open It Until I Met Someone Who Could
When I grew up, all I knew about my birth family came to me in the form of a small box.
I Played Hide-And-Go-Seek With My Brother And It Went Completely Wrong
“Hey, Charlie, how about we play hide ‘n’ seek? I’ll even count first.”
I Can Always Hear The Screaming When It Rains
It was a high whistling sound, somehow human, somehow tragic. You could hear the pain in the voice, a dreadful melancholy punctured through with agony. It was the sound of someone wailing for something long since lost, but never forgotten. Unable to be forgotten.
You Should Never Have A Love Affair If You Live In A Small Town
When was the last time you locked your car?
I Lived On This Farm All My Life And Only Recently Was I Told Of Its Dark Secret
It’s funny that I didn’t notice it sooner.
These Letters Are For Stephen King’s Eyes Only
Dear Mr. Stephen King…
I Found Out Why There Are Little Holes Around Graves In Our Town’s Graveyard
It was almost a perfect circle and bigger than I’d first thought — just a bit bigger than a softball.
My Mother Finally Told Me The Horrible Truth That’s Been Haunting Our Family
When I was a child, my mother used to talk a lot about Those People.
When Your Reality Starts To Glitch And You Notice The Distortions
Red. This dress was red.
Except it wasn’t.
At First, We Welcomed The Mysterious Vigilante Named ‘The Judge’
Throughout most of my life, I haven’t given much thought to the concept of vigilante justice. To me, that stuff belonged in movies and cheap TV shows, not down at the park on Fourth and Western.
