Fiction instilling fear

Task for the week: to write a piece of fiction, instilling fear in the reader. This is as far as I got…

Mummy usually woke him up for school with a cup of tea delivered to his bedside table, along with kisses. But the clock said nine o’clock and they should be at school by now, not just waking up. He laid there, luxuriating in the warmth of his bed on this winter morning. Yet he felt unsettled and unsure what to do. He couldn’t hear his mum clattering around in the kitchen below his room. Indeed the whole house had an eerie calm.