Tag: Can't sleep
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Across Lives Part 32
Sleep did not come easily to Nis that first night in Quet’tzos. The temporary housing that Lesch and Kerchek had mentioned turned out to be a spacious set of rooms in one of the towering buildings she’d seen after disembarking from the airship. From the windows, Nis could look out over much of the city.…
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Across Lives Part 4
(Photo by James Wheeler) The archives had no bedrooms. At the end of each day, the archivists and apprentices all retired to a building across from the archives where they lived. For those who were married or had children, they were given larger accommodations with additional rooms. The apprentices were given a pair of small…
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Personifications – Sympathy
Finding shapes, primarily faces, among the swirled texture of the ceiling was among Sympathy’s least favorite way to pass the time, and yet time and again she found herself doing just that, night after night. The orange light from the streetlamps outside her bedroom window made certain she always had enough illumination to see those…
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Visiting Hours
The second hand on the clock sliced the crawling time in silent ticks. It was odd to see the motion without hearing anything. Most clocks with a second hand made at least some ticking sound. This clock was an exception. There were other sounds, of course. Muffled voices sometimes drifted in from outside the room,…
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An Uninvited Guest
It was another sleepless night for Asam. His old aches and pains acted up more frequently whenever the seasons were transitioning and he took his current discomfort to mean that Spring was on its way. Whether he stayed in bed or not, he would be in pain, so he threw off the covers and climbed…
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Too Quiet to Sleep
Clint couldn’t sleep. It was too hot and there wasn’t even a breath of breeze to help cool him off. The curtains in front of his open window just hung there, limp, as evidence of the still night air. He’d already thrown off his blankets and stripped down to his shorts. Outside his window he…
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Favors Part 2
Katrina couldn’t sleep. It had only been a couple of days since the building she worked in burned down and still the events of that day troubled her and filled her mind with so many thoughts that she could hardly sleep. Of course, it wasn’t specifically the fire that kept her mind racing, it was…
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Cold, Old, and Retired
It was three in the morning and cold. Guillaume hated both of those things. His aged body ached all the time but less so when it was warm, and though he was so very tired all of the time, he couldn’t seem to stay asleep for more than a few hours each night. There was…
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Insomnia
Shadows played on the ceiling. Thoughts raced, but all I wanted was sleep.I should shut off my alarm, I thought to myself. I don’t need to be up for anything. I moved to find my alarm in the dark.No, I stopped myself, If I sleep in, it’ll only make it harder to fall asleep tomorrow. I…
Bridge of Broken Glass 