Middle of the Night

by Riley Sager

There are always so many thoughts rolling through his brain that he gets overwhelmed and melts down. He imagines them as marbles, cracking into each other and careening off the inside of his skull. A near-constant stream of motion and color and distractions.

That the world was filled with entities who were here but invisible, present but ignored.

But just because she hid the worry didn’t mean it had gone away. It was still there. A monster lurking in the dark, waiting to come out at the most unpredictable moments.