It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours. The unfinished wood floor had large, terrifying holes whose yawning darkness I knew led to nowhere good.

那是一个下午，在我们家附近建筑物下的一间屋子里，未完工的木地板上有一个可怕的大洞，豁口内的黑暗让人生寒。