Dreams from Apartment 609: A Collection of Fictional Short Stories …just then, as I felt myself drifting into dormancy, a flash of light burned in my eyes, deep past my retinas, and into my brain. I tried to sit up and wake but a thousand hands held my body to the bed. The flashes grew brighter and longer. I once again tried to wake myself but I could not. I tried to scream but nothing came out. I tried to pray but I didn’t know how. That is when I saw her. My eyes were closed yet I could see everything. The Lady in Black stood near me then moved seductively away. I felt myself moving toward her, being pulled and drawn to her. She kept pulling me with her eyes. I felt like I wanted to be pulled. Then she reached out of the dark and I was being thrust down a moving light tunnel, falling and tumbling and rolling downward to a bottomless pit, falling and flying out of control, until without warning I stopped abruptly finding myself in a dream and a world I have never been….