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Daily Nightmare
by Marge Simon
I have this friend. She told me how she’s having a hard time sleeping. She keeps dreaming the same dream over and over. There’s a chain link fence, a child in a stroller. In the dream nobody is watching at the time she passes by.
Then there’s a baby crying but it isn’t hers, it can’t be hers. Shadowy whispers underneath the dark, the clicking of teeth, and the moans begin. They’re small at first, banging around her room, bouncing off the walls growing ever louder, going from whimpers into loud shrieks.
But the baby (that can’t be hers) wails on through her dreams, high above the hellish clamber in the unforgiving darkness of the heaviest hours before dawn.
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Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
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spooky to the core! the baby’s wails and hellish clamber is a terrifying nightmare/haunt.
Very creepy, an excellent story.
So good. It takes a masterful hand to end the story where it does, leaving it to run on repeat in the reader’s mind for eternity – so creepy.