The Cellar

Our youngest son has a fear of going into the basement on his own. It's not a rational fear. I'd more more frightened of going outside in the cold, where you could get locked out. There are no locks to the basement. Of the rooms in our house, the basement has the best carpeting. There's no monsters there. There are lights all the way down. Of the basements of people in our family, ours feels the least scary. But maybe subconsciously, or via english to genetic transposition knows of this story.