An Insomniac's Nightmare
"Have you ever had insomnia? If you have then what I'm about to say won't seem that strange, but if not, well, we'll see. I'm not going to tell you what a person like me feels; I'm going to show you what happens for yourself. I'm going to take you through a single night where the subconscious becomes reality, where you can see things in a way that you have never seen them before. Are you ready for this?"
(Dominic Monaghan-An Insomniac's Nightmare, preveiw)
CHAPTER ONE:
When she was younger, Shannon had always been afraid of the dead. Afraid that they would come back and get her. She used to think that they were angry with her for letting them die, even if she didn't know them.
Then Shannon's mother had died when she was six; she could remember staring down at the darkened grave, imagining her mother screaming for help, trying to dig her way out, and her cries falling on deaf ears. Shannon could remember how when she looked around the graveyard, she could see hundreds of the dead climbing out of their graves, coming to reap their revenge upon Shannon Rutherford because she didn't save them. But then she would blink, and the image would be gone, but they always came back. The dead haunted Shannon's dreams at night.
Most nights, she would stay awake, sitting in her bed, her knees drawn up to her chin and her face streaked with tears. She would look with wild, fearful eyes around the room: at the locked door and windows, the closet, and under her bed to make sure that nothing was crawling out from underneath.
As Shannon had grown older, she learned to seal her fright behind the mask of a spoiled, selfish girl. But lately, the mask had begun to slip, ever since she had stopped having nightmares, ever since the plane crashed on the Island. She didn't even have a nightmare when she had heard that Charlie had shot Claire's kidnapper.
But not anymore.
Not since Boone died.
She had begun to see him at night, calling her name, begging for help. And each hour that passed brought him closer to his Death.