Nightmare 

by ep113

They come for me in the night. They are fiends, with sharp tearing claws and strong piercing teeth. I struggle to rise but the blankets are tangled about my limbs, their heaviness had provided warmth had comfort hours earlier but now threatened to keep me at the mercy of the night.

Gasping I rise bolt upright. The creatures are gone and only the blanket remains to vex me. I tug at it only to find that it has become a large python and it’s entanglement now threatens to squeeze the life from my existence.

Thrashing about I fall onto the floor, it’s hard and cold embrace a welcomed relief as the blanket releases me from its deathlike grip.

There is solidness to the cold floor and I push off of it and find myself adrift and alone in space. I spin around and around uncontrollably. The Earth is a distant object and I’m suddenly very cold. I hold my breath, there is no air in space after all. Eventually I must let out an explosive exhalation.

I lay there gasping, when I realize that once again I’m lying in my bed. My smile spreads as I settle my head onto the pillow and pull the blanket which had been a python over my chilled body. It had all been just a dream, no a nightmare. I smile again and miss the skeletal hands that come up through the mattress and pull me into the darkness.