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Source:
Shortest horrors.
Author:
Carl Glover
Title:
It's Only a Dream
Dripping with sweat, fighting for breath, another bad night for Joanne. Two am was always the worst, symptomatic of stress, apparently. Her homeopath had prescribed Arsenicum. Dissolving those sweet little tablets under her tongue each day seemed weird, but after months of the must lucid, terrifying nightmares, anything was worth a shot. This together with her therapist’s suggestion that to exorcise her demons, she should continually chant to herself 'it's only a dream'.
That night was particularly brutal, a tattooed and heavily pierced face in hers, something very tight around her neck, a relentless heavy weight bearing down on her, a disgusting pungent odour. The vivid sensation of being strangled numbing the agony of a rape scene in which she was the victim. "ITS ONLY A DREAM" her muffled cries, went unheard.
At least the morning always brought the relief of consciousness, and the reality check that it had only been a dream, except this time....
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