The Nightmare

Written by Simon Smart

The nightmare is a clever thing with all kinds of tricks and traps. Your demons always close enough to touch, salvation forever just out of reach, vines to tangle your feet, water to drown and endless expanses of falling.

The nightmare knows your memories. It hones a blade from the moment you knew the car wouldn’t stop. It wears the face of the man with the knife. It weaves a body of spiders, snakes, blood and bones. The nightmare knows you. Is you. You cannot escape it any more than you can escape from yourself.

You believe that when you wake the nightmare sleeps, and that is the nightmare’s greatest trick. The nightmare is awake, here and now, waiting to catch you one more time.