Graveyard Shift

by M.L. Rio

I liked the idea of a story about sleep and sleeplessness that could unfold over only one evening, like a shady, troubled dream.

It’s frighteningly easy to get lost in your own subconscious; any place you think you know is different after dark.

Tellingly, the most arresting odes to slumber are spoken by those who can’t have it.

learned to live in the permanent twilight of sleep-deprivation psychosis. Life, if you could call it that, was a never-ending out-of-body experience.