Don't Sleep
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MatureComplete Tue, Mar 7, 20175m
A prequel to The Rat Race, but also works as a stand-alone story. Alex Morgenstern is a videographer who is bugged by a recurring nightmare of a sanitarium. He tries Lucid Dreaming to get out of that terrifying place they call the Muertoblancos Sanitarium. But is there something more to this place, and to his nightmares than what meets the eye?
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