Short Story: The Sleep By Shon Mehta ( Illustration)

Pedro had been wide awake the entire night. All the coconut oil on his head couldn't help him calm down. Even the sleeping pill he had taken could not make him sleep for long. His anxiety about his impending homelessness had triumphed over all.He kept imagining himself sleeping on a footpath near a gutter, with filth all around him. The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became.

He had not felt this anxious ever, not even when fed up of his father's abuse, had run away from a small fis...