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Your protagonist has recurring nightmares about this place...

Your protagonist has recurring nightmares about this place...

Writings

Success Isn’t The Key To Happiness.

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

-Aaron Laurit...

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Red

red

Everything red

As I woke up sweat drenched in my bed

My nightmare made me think I was dead

It filled up my head with existential dread

Red?

Everything red?

How could I be so messed up in the head

Of course I wouldn’t be dead

If not how did I wake up here in my bed

I woke up here in my bed…

My red bed?

My bed is not red

I sunk into this bed which is not mine cause it’s red

The covers consumed...

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Footsteps Under A Starry Sky

This recurring nightmare…needs to stop.


For my sake.


First, it’ll start out like a peaceful starry night, the wind blowing gently, and peaceful silence fills the atmosphere.


Then the stars dim out of sight, the sky turns inky black, and the tree I stand in front of turns red with a glow of something that’s scuffing its feet behind me.


I slowly turn my head, and there it is.


A wide, sharp smil...

The room

My eyes are covered

My hands bound

My feet tied to a chair

They have dragged me down here

Laughed in my face

Took away my pride

I am powerless

Alone

The room is closing in

Getting smaller and smaller

Can’t breathe

Not enough air

A hand reaches out

Tugs me back to reality

I open my eyes

Look at my surroundings

The dark room is now a bright classroom

The chains binding me to the chair is now invi...

Nightamare

My life is a nightmare..

But also a daydream?

Pick one.

Preferably the daydream

Why do i even try somedays that end up like a wreck

But I can't say no to anything because I dont have the confidence

What if I say no on a good day?

What do I do

...

The Area That Talks

Every night before bed there is a sense of eerie in my spirit, when i fall a sleep i know its only a certain amount of time where i start to sweat. I fear what’s behind my own eyes.

Everything glows read and the sky screams to be heard. The place haunts me in my sleep and i never knew what it truly meant, am i meant to be here alone. I cant see nothing but the thing in front of me but eyes watch ...

Crimsons in an unknown

Not again. I thought to myself. Why me, why now?

The vast lands lay before me, in a perpetual sunset, blanketed by the eerie glow of the sun still yellow in the dark expanse of space. It was a common, yet untimely experience. I had traversed these same shadowy valleys for the past 7 and a half years now, and I die a different horrible death each time... each and every time.

I had just gotten back ...

The Path

Every night I visit that place.


The blood red tree that calls to me in a way I cannot describe.


Have you ever been walking down the street and felt like someone was watching you? That’s what this felt like. The haptic buzz in my temporal lobe, indicating that there was a threat near me. But instead of wanting to run, I always wanted to be closer. It felt like it was calling me home. The promis...

Dreamscape

Falling…I’m _falling_!


I try and grab onto something, _anything,_ but there’s nothing for me to hold onto. I hit the ground with a thud, coughing as I stand up, stumbling back and extending my arms to steady myself. I pry my eyes open and recoil in horror at what I see. Standing in front of me is my little sister, holding onto her favorite toy, a brown sock monkey that I got her for her birthd...

The Day It All Started

Danielle sat up in bed covered in a cold sweat. Even though the room was a warm seventy two degrees. This was the third night this week she had woken to the same dream. She did not bother turning on the bedside lamp cause she did not want to wake her younger brother Andrew but it did not matter he was already awake.

“Is it the same dream?” He asked from the bed next to hers....