Steam Room Girl
9 min readNov 15, 2019
You walked out of a dream to wrap your warmth around me.
The year is 2016.
Every night, my attempts to fall asleep are hampered by the chronic sensation of insects crawling on my skin. When I inspect my bedding, there is nothing there.
When sleep does arrive, it’s interrupted by periodic slips into sleep paralysis. Disturbing apparitions assault my mind. I remember one was a girl…
