Back Yard at Night

There is something perversely thrilling about being out late at night when all the decent folk are safely at home in bed. Being out in the dark intent on some discreet and ill-defined mission. Being out in the dark in places where rational people don't go.

Most people, I think, are afraid of the dark. And rightly so; you don't know what else is out there in the dark with you. Mostly, though, what's out in the dark with you are other folks who are like you.

I don't know if that's comforting...or more frightening.