The Thing That Sat on the Bed | After Midnight

He wanted it to be one moment he could explain away.

Too little sleep. Too much noise. A mind still wired for danger after years in the infantry. If he could label it exhaustion or stress, it wouldn’t follow him. But something sat on the bed.

Not a shadow. Not black. A dark, unnatural green. Lanky. Reaching. Real enough that both of them saw it—and ran. That should have been the end.

Instead, sleep became dangerous. Old memories resurfaced. A childhood hospital vision. A violent dream overseas that felt less like fear and more like intervention. And beneath it all, a growing realization that the figure in the bedroom hadn’t arrived on its own.

What if it wasn’t the threat? What if it interrupted something that was already there?

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