Today’s 100 Words subject [1]:
All I want is SLEEP!
My entry [2]:
“Then go to sleep,” I said. I knew it wouldn’t be that simple. It never was.
“When I sleep, nightmares come.”
I shrugged. “We all saw a lot of stuff in the service. It sticks with you.”
“No, I don’t mean I have nightmares. I mean nightmares come here. They come to life.”
I cocked my head. Shell shock. Maybe. Probably.
“I don’t have a wife any more.”
Not surprising. “She left you?”
“No, don’t you understand? They took her. The nightmares. They stole my wife.”
His next words finally gave me a chill. “And I have a daughter –”