Playing Sleep
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  • Reads 293,501
  • Votes 10,790
  • Parts 14
  • Time 3h 53m
Complete, First published Apr 24, 2014
Jason is nineteen-year-old uni student with a chronic case of insomnia. Emily is a seventeen-year-old high school girl with sporadic bursts of crippling anxiety.   

The two live in different worlds, but when they meet at a pop-up-punk concert, Jason just can't let her go.     

He had tried nearly every thinkable cure for his disorder, but in the end, all it took was a mixtape, seven phone calls, and a very special girl to get Jason to sleep.       

Short Story #228  22/10/14  |  Teen-Fiction #304  14/09/15
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