8,753 words (≈ 35 minutes)
Jayne, a young nurse on night duty at a hospital for the criminally insane, awakens from a nightmare about a burning carnival and a little girl dressed in pink. The nightmare is somehow connected to a patient named Melanie, committed many years before for her role in causing a fire at a local carnival. The blaze killed several people. Jayne begins to research the fire and the mysterious patient but can find no records of either. It’s almost as if it never happened.… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-09-16
Word count: 8,753 words (≈ 35 minutes)
Tags: nightmares, nurses, carnival, thriller, horror, hospital
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:26:13 +0200
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