Writing Prompt

“Remember to tie me up mother, I can’t afford to get another incident when I sleepwalks.” I reminded my mother, I has sleepwalked for multiple nights in this months and each created unwanted incidents.

“Isn’t that a bit too extreme? I’m sure just locking up the door of your room would work.” My mother uneasily said.

“I suppose you may be right, it shouldn’t be possible for me to leave this hou...

INT. CITY STREET - NIGHT**

Katie walks down a dark alleyway, her eyes wide and vacant. She is sleepwalking.

**SFX:** Footsteps

**INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT**

Katie's brother, JOHN, wakes up and checks his phone. It's 3am and there's a missed call from Katie. He calls her back.

**PHONE**

JOHN
(Worried)
Katie? Where are you?

KATIE
(Disoriented)
...I don't know.

JOHN
What do you mean you don't kn...

Waking with a gun aimed at my head, you’d think I’d fear for my safety. But bullets stopped hurting in 1908. Since then, any sleepwalking I do ends in a blood bath.

I tried chains. They failed. I tried a coffin. The henges crack too easy. And then it hit me. Vampires and werewolves have it easy.

At first, I thought I was a werewolf, but after I found dead bodies through each phase of the moon, I...

POP! POP

POP- POP

POP POP!

POP POP…

“What the-“

“GUN DOWN!! DOWN NOW!!”

“But I didn’t… where am I?”

“HANDS UP, DOWN ON YOUR KNEES!”

There’s blood everywhere, clotted down my clothes. I had the strangest dream that I hurt someone. That I was on top of a young girl, my hand raised as I repeatedly beat her with the butt of my handgun. I shake a...

Larry squinted as the obnoxiously sudden glare of a dozen or so flashing lights greeted him as he woke up. He could feel a chilly breeze scurry across his body and suddenly reminding him that he was still in his underwear. This was not good.

“Ah crap guys. I’m so sorry this happened again.” He hollered out to those within earshot. “I know there was an ask that I try to go to bed with more of me b...

My life was a blur and in a flash I was staring at the point of a gun barrel of a magnum pistol held by a cop at the end.

Put your gun down and place your hands were I can see you said the cop.

Deliriously I could hear the sounds of sirens and voices, dropped the gun with a thud from my fingers helplessly.

Vision started to clear I was surrounded by cops on a road with fire engines and squad cars....

Sitting in a pickup truck, my grasp tightened around the steering wheel. Surrounded by a battalion of emergency service vehicles, the rotation of their warning lights illuminated the inside of my truck every second or two. When I glanced into the rear view mirror, only one thought came to mind.

“How did I get here?”

Insomnia filled nights plagued me for years, never allowing my body the necess...

I’m not quite sure how I ended up here. All I know is I have to be very still. Otherwise the people behind these flashing lights and sirens might attack without a warning.

I really don’t blame them, I am standing in the middle of the road in the dark of the night covered in blood. I’d attack me too. Looks like I’ve been sleep walking again. Great, Just when I thought things couldn’t get any w...

I’ve always been a sleepwalker.

Over the years, I’ve tried to counter it, I’ve locked doors, hidden keys from myself, done everything I can to make sure that I get a good nights sleep. It goes in fits and starts, sometimes I can go for weeks and months at a time without sleepwalking, and others it happens night after night, leaving me exhausted and draining the next day when I wake up in strange ...

Charlie sat on the curb, rubbing the knuckles on his right hand. He could tell they were about to start swelling up. There was blood, but he wasn’t bleeding.

Red and blue lights took turns flash-flash-flashing—a mix of late model black SUVs with modern light bars, and the old gumball lights atop a few police and emergency vehicles that looked like relics from the 80s.

Where was he?

About two-d...