The funny thing about imaginary friends

When I was a child, I used to have an imaginary friend. I called him Damien. He came in many forms, but sometimes he was a skeleton, an 8 foot tall skeleton. He was a skeleton because I needed him faster than it took for him to grow human skin, so he never grew it. He came to protect me before that, but because he was skinless he needed to be taller for protection.. children are silly.

We would walk together in the twilight, talking, about how I was lonely, and he would try to make me laugh, and sometimes it would work.

And now, I realize, this was all me talking to myself, not playing pretend.

Children are weird.