Prompt: Phobia
Character(s): William

A dreary light leaks through a dorm window, playing with the shadows on the wall. A messy-haired teen wakes and backpedals from the image looming over him, an apparition of a large creature with eight spindly legs, then curses his impotence. In the window hung a small spider, no bigger than a fly, whose looming shadow had agitated his pretentious fear.

Yes, a truly pretentious fear, to rattle him without merit- this childish fear cannot relate to real fear. No damage dealt by the spider could equate to the torture undergone when ensnared by the monster that haunts his nightmares.