Beautiful Nightmare

by Katee Robert

They’re humans. They jump at shadows, and it’s their spooky season. They’re as primed as they can be to terrorize. They even seek out the scares during this month.

I’m a terrible demon, and an even more terrible sleep paralysis demon. Sometimes I can’t even paralyze my humans.

Because nowhere in the sleep paralysis demon manual was there a section containing “What to Do If Your Human Gets a Boner.”