When She Sleeps

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Reads 43
Votes 2
Parts 2
Time <5 mins

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Laina Moritz is a seventeen-year-old girl living inside a constant night terror. She sleeps for a week at a time, only awakening briefly each time to find herself estranged, in a blackened room furnished with a single bed. 

Each chapter is based upon another spine-tingling nightmare faced by Laina in her never-ending slumber. Her life is spent in delusive agony as she attempts to break free from the abuttals of living in perpetual torment. 

Will she ever escape this excruciating torture?




WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF VIOLENCE AND TORTURE, WHICH SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING OR UPSETTING.All Rights Reserved

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