Sleep
A woman wakes up in the night to find her husband bolt upright in bed talking in his sleep. “Someone is inside,” he says, before sparking back out again. The next day she asks him about what he said the night before. It was a line from a script I’ve been reading, her actor-husband tells her dismissively. The next night something a bit different. The husband starts scratching at his face uncontrollably while apparently asleep. The wife wakes him up and quietens him down, then she goes back to sleep and so does her husband. But in the morning his face is a mass of bloody red scratches so bad that make-up will … Read more