Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

by Jordan Peele

I’ve begun to fear sleep, particularly the dark space between waking and dreaming. I’ve gotten spooky

a ghost? a witch? an experiment gone wrong? a monster? who can say?

I have a condition. I have a condition with an ugly name. One of the symptoms of this ugly condition is that I am afraid, profoundly, that I will be abandoned. The doctor says this fear is irrational, even though I have been abandoned before.