Adeline's+Wish

Adeline Garrison was an odd child. She appeared fairly average and was for the most part, except for her craving for fear. She loved to be scared more than anything in the world. She loved the feeling of waking up from a nightmare, drenched in sweat with her heart pounding so hard it just might burst. To Adeline, nightmares were a dream come true.

Adeline sat on her bed in a black satin nightgown reading a Stephen King novel. She glanced at her clock and saw the time was 11:03 at night. Adeline closed her book and moved towards the open window in her room. She pulled down the glass and caught a glimpse of something in the sky. "A shooting star!" she whispered with joy. She closed her eyes and breathed out her wish, "I wish that I could always have a nightmare. That would be great." She clicked off her bedside lamp, climbed under the indigo covers, and began to dream.

But it wasn't a dream.

It was a nightmare. A horrible, disturbing thing festering inside her mind. In the dream, Adeline was in an old, run down factory. She raced through the place, heart pounding in her chest. There was some sort of beast hunting her down; she could tell. She heard the creature roar menacingly from behind her. Adeline sprinted towards the next room in the factory, but took one wrong step and slipped on a pool of spilled oil. She tried to stand up, but kept slipping and sliding and writhing in the muck. Adeline froze as the monster breathed heavily down the back of her neck.

She rolled over and looked up at the hideous thing. It was an ogre, all slimy and disfigured. It moved closer to Adeline and opened its massive jaws to reveal two rows of gargantuan, blood-stained teeth. Adeline went into a panic. "That's enough for this dream! Wake up!" Nothing happened. "Come on! Wake up!" Still nothing happened and Adeline's hysteria grew. "Wake up! Wake up! WAKE UP!!!"

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