**THUD!**

Harper jolts awake, nearly tumbling from her tangled bedsheets. The dark shadows in her spacious room twist into unsettling shapes. Grabbing the cool blade hidden under her pillow, she prepares for anything. As the daughter of the most hated general in history, caution is essential.

Flicking a bracelet on her wrist, a soft, translucent shield surrounds her just as a small object whizzes...

“Dude, did you hear that?”

Will’s vision was blurry. But he could manage to make out the silhouette of his friend bolted upright.

“Hear wha…” he yawned. He forced his eyes to open and pushed himself up. He looked up at the clock on the bedside table.

**_1:30 AM

_**

“I don’t hear anything…” He mumbled, sleep still clinging on to him. His warm sheets invited him back in. “What are you talking a...

A noise in the dead of night.

Why do they call it that??

Laughing, fighting, hah.

It could go on and on.

Bass thumping.

Red lights lit up.

AirPods going.

She hangs ov-

over her desk.

Working on it.

Her next piece.

Masterpiece.

Like a DJ at the slide.

I make people sing along.

Rapping my raps, tryna be me.

DJ at the slide, I make my own beat.

Rap my writings, copy my beats.

You’ll never get the ...

I was pulled out of my slumber by Kelly's fingers tapping on my shoulder.

“There it is again, that weird noise. Joey do you hear it?" Whispered Kelly.

I heard it, it didn't bother me this time and it didn't bother me the other times I'd heard it. There was a strange sound that sounded like a vacuum cleaner coming from our next-door neighbor. I'd heard it during the day and I'd heard it duri...

It was a gargling sound, undulating in the night. It wasn't totally strange, I had heard it before. I pulled my blankets over my head, hoping for it to stop. It was happening nearly every night now and I didn't like it. Something was definitely not ok.

I didn't want to get out of bed. But there it was again. The same gurgling sound. Then a squeak. I sighed and made myself turn on the lamp.

Ther...

The sound of the kitchen cabinets being slammed shut roused her from her sleep, her thoughts foggy and slow from the unexpected, abrupt interruption. She forced her eyes open and glanced over at the clock on her bedside table where the numbers glowed 2:00 A.M.

Too early to get up for work, she thought.

She rolled over and repositioned her pillow, enveloped by her soft billowy comforter. Her eyes...

I was awoken by a series of knocks early in the morning. Just a quick:

Knock, Knock, Knock.

I pushed myself up from my bed, wiping sleep from my eyes. Trying to figure out if I'd heard what I heard. I was on the verge of discarding the idea, my left arm supporting my weight as I sat in bed, it began to bend back towards the mattress, as sleep took over.

Knock, Knock, Knock

I sat up straight...

He awoke to the sound of a twig snapping.

“Curse my hearing!” He thought as he got up from his bed. He walked across the wooden floor of his room. He went to the door of Willow’s room and looked in glad to see she was sleeping. Aunt Bettie was asleep in her room too. Another twig snapped and he ran to the door. He grabbed the battle axe by the door and stepped outside. His bare feet crunching on ...

One dark night I went to bed and I felt really thirst so I woke up to get some water in the kitchen and then I heard a glass break so I went and I look and I saw a woman with no face and she was just standing there looking at me so I starting running away from it. When I look I saw it wasn’t looking at me again also it wasn’t even there or at least that’s what I thought . when I was about going b...

The strange sound that came from my walls woke me up once again. This time it was just past 3 am. I groaned in frustration and stuffed my head in between my pillows. This had been an ongoing situation for months. I'd never realized it until it got cold, so my deduction was that it was my downstairs neighbor's heating unit. It made sense to me...

But it didn't really sound like a heating unit...