Tag: nosleep
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/nosleep: My Father’s Nanny Cam [Part 1.]
I didn’t notice the nanny cam for a few days. My mother recently remarried, and her new husband moved in about a month ago. I refuse to call him dad. Please don’t think that this is normal teenage angst. I have good reasons not to. My stepfather is a creep. Even before they married I…
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/nosleep: Don’t Check the Locks. Don’t Look at the Door.
Monday, 1:15 AM: ♫Sunny day Sweepin’ the clouds away Ignore the knocking on the door. Keep watching the DVD, turn the volume up if you have to. The knocking will get louder. Ignore it. Watch Sesame Street, think happy thoughts. Fucking sing along if you have to. It’s 1:15. That first night it started with…
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/nosleep: Don’t Watch the Skies [Part 3.]
The heavens are destitute. The void is not fertile. Here are the things that I thought that I knew: —They only come out at night. —If I kept driving, I could get away from them. —There was hope. The radio frayed into static, and the “woman’s” Mona Lisa smile curved upward. There was no meaning…
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/nosleep: Don’t Watch the Skies [Part 2.]
So far I am grateful for two things: that my uncle’s credit card hasn’t maxed out, and that the weather here is overcast.I can’t stand the stars anymore. It’s too real. I drive during the day, I only stop for gas. My radio is always on, it is always loud. I have been motel hopping.…
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/nosleep: Don’t Watch the Skies [Part 1.]
Before I started skipping from one motel to the next, before I screwed a GoPro to the hood of my car to watch me sleep through the motel’s window, I got a call from my uncle. I knew it was trouble the moment my uncle had called me. Last year his dog, Sadie, disappeared for…