The Bad Place
“In the other bed. Snoring softly.
Thomas couldn’t sleep. He got up and stood by the window, looking out. The moon was gone. The dark was very big.
He didn’t like the night. It scared him. He liked sunshine, and flowers all bright, and grass looking green, and blue sky all over so you felt like there was a lid on the world keeping everything down here on the ground and in place. At night all the colors were gone, and the world was empty, like somebody took the lid off and let in a lot of nothing...ness, and you looked up at all that nothingness and you felt you might just float away like the colors, float up and away and out of the world, and then in the morning when they put the lid back on, you wouldn’t be here, you’d be out there somewhere, and you could never get back in again. Never.
He put his fingertips against the window. The glass was cool.
He wished he could sleep away the night. Usually he slept okay. Not tonight.
He was worried about Julie. He always worried about her a little.MoreLess
Thomas couldn’t sleep. He got up and stood by the window, looking out. The moon was gone. The dark was very big.
He didn’t like the night. It scared him. He liked sunshine, and flowers all bright, and grass looking green, and blue sky all over so you felt like there was a lid on the world keeping everything down here on the ground and in place. At night all the colors were gone, and the world was empty, like somebody took the lid off and let in a lot of nothing...ness, and you looked up at all that nothingness and you felt you might just float away like the colors, float up and away and out of the world, and then in the morning when they put the lid back on, you wouldn’t be here, you’d be out there somewhere, and you could never get back in again. Never.
He put his fingertips against the window. The glass was cool.
He wished he could sleep away the night. Usually he slept okay. Not tonight.
He was worried about Julie. He always worried about her a little.MoreLess
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