(prologue)
As I lay me down to sleep,
My soul is mine that I want to keep!
RLJ
FIGHTING SLEEP
(OAKLAND, CA)
Velma is sitting upright in her bed, back pressed against the headboard with the quilt pulled
up to her mouth held in a tight grip by both hands!
She is staring at the smoky human-like apparition hovering at the foot of her bed and
obviously staring at her!
Oh, this is not the first time this astral thing has appeared just as she is about to go to bed
and hopefully to... sleep!
Her life is now a horror show because the thing has never spoken, and what does it want...
and what does it do when sleep overtakes her every night... before she eventually awakens
in a full panic... like the night before!
RLJ
