1. I Can't Go To: Sleep

If he checked the time again, it would be 4:00 AM. And if it was 4:00 AM, he had already lost.

He pulled his hand back and tucked it under the covers. He decided to play a game: he would imagine building a house, brick by brick, board by board. He started with the foundation. He poured the concrete. He laid the first row of bricks. 1. I Can't Go To Sleep

He sighed, his eyes burning and heavy, and realized the cruelest joke of all: now that the sun was up, he was finally starting to feel a little bit drowsy. If he checked the time again, it would be 4:00 AM

The clock on the nightstand was a liar. It claimed it was 3:14 AM, but Elias knew better. To him, time had ceased to be a linear progression of minutes and had instead become a thick, suffocating fog. He decided to play a game: he would