You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird,…”

“For her first summer vacation, my sister went to California with a couple of fr…”

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endle…”

“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have …”