Out cold like a pebble lost in an intangible lake. I am the pebble, and my lake, a  bottomless ocean of unconsciousness. I can feel the cool bite of blackness sink it's teeth into my brain...

Moonlight drapes my room tonight like the ancient dust found in old abandoned houses. Filling every crack, every crevice. I try and drift, for just a second but my heart drops and I'm awakened.

For when I let my eyelids close, I see a manner of things that frighten me and my fleeting glimpses of sleep are diminished. Thus the forlorn story of my insomnia repeats itself yet again.

Is my mind cursed?
Am I being haunted?
Why can I see such frightful things inside my head?

Every night's  a nightmare and it seems the dreams are  scarce. Unsheathing myself from the covers, I look at my reflection, just to reassure myself that I'm whole.

Oh I'm whole.

But. There she is. Someone else. Someone unknown. Staring back at me from behind. A shiver shakes my spine and rattles my knees. I'm numb , my body is frozen in time.