When Will We Ever Wake Up
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SLEEPY Pandemic:
Worldwide phenomena in which certain people are falling into comas and/or dying in their sleep. Informally known as Sleepy, the pandemic has two sides, but only few know both.
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"It picks us off one by one. But as the entities get stronger so do the Sleepy waves. Soon nobody will be awake. Or alive."
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If they survive, they wake to a normal day, dreams forgotten.
Die once, and they fall Comatose, stuck in the Zone.
Die twice, and they become the very things they once ran from.
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What happens when the whole world falls asleep?
16 year old Dakota Winsely is an insomniac teen juggling school life and strange things. She lives with her mother and her one-year-old little brother, struggling at night to keep her hallucinatons at bay. The insomnia drugs never work, and she's given up trying.
When the SSS pandemic hits the U.S and her mother falls Comatose, she is forced to move in with her aunt and uncle to the bigger city and Sleepy waves are only getting stronger. New school. New enemies. Chaos swarms the streets as more people fall each day and the citizens don't remember why.
Then the impossible happens. Dakota sleeps a full night. And the things she sees don't feel like a dream...
This is the Zone. Entities. Encounters. Deaths here correspond to deaths in real life. Comatose remain trapped. The rest wake up and just continue to believe in an airborne virus.
But there are others who remember both sides: the waking world and the Zone; The knowledge threatening to put them in more danger than the effects of the pandemic itself.
Dakota is just one of them.
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