Mount Holyoke Review 03

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Nightstalker Sandra Grace Content Notes: scary situations, horror, nightmares

The Nightstalker

For the past few nights, I have been waking up from a dream where I am falling and don’t seem to be able to stop myself no matter how hard I try, and trust me I am trying When I have these dreams, I wake up and find the only way for me to even be able to attempt to fall back to a peaceful slumber is for my face to feel the cool crisp bite of the 3 am air on my skin. When I find myself with my feet on the grass and the wind blowing against my face, I get scared that someone is behind me breathing deeply and darkly and I hear a small laugh and then I get scared I think someone is watching me and I worry that someone will take me so then I take myself inside and force myself back to my bed and fall back asleep but the dark breath creeps in my bed again. For the past few nights, I–

For the past few nights, I– I think someone is watching me and I worry that someone will take me so then I take myself inside and force myself back to my bed and fall back asleep but the dark breath creeps in my bed again.

When I find myself with my feet on the grass and the wind blowing against my face, I get scared that someone is behind me breathing deeply and darkly and I hear a small laugh and then I get scared When I have these dreams, I wake up and find the only way for me to even be able to attempt to fall back to a peaceful slumber is for my face to feel the cool crisp bite of the 3 am air on my skin. For the past few nights, I have been waking up from a dream where I am falling and don’t seem to be able to stop myself no matter how hard I try, and trust me I am trying The Nightstalker

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“This poem is perfect. You’re never gonna hear it for the first time again.” – Hannah Thukral / Marissa Carl

1min
page 70

A Trauma Song / Elle Provolo

1min
page 51

prophecies / Ava Provolo

1min
page 30

Orion / Avery Martin

1min
page 69

Choreography / Avery Martin

1min
page 18

Contributors

8min
pages 98-106

The Korean American who loved...] / Jackie Hahn

1min
pages 96-97

New Snow / Liz Lewis

2min
pages 90-91

W 152nd Street / Sandra Grace

2min
pages 93-95

pyro / Gabrielle Rodriguez Gonzalez

1min
page 85

the endless skyway / Elle Provolo

1min
page 92

Open letter / Elle Provolo

1min
page 89

Black Skimmer / Sarah Smith

1min
pages 86-87

we’re eating steamers / Declan Langton

1min
page 88

Sometimes I Sit And Think... / Declan Langton

2min
pages 81-82

Lunches in Hollywood / Madeline Grossman

10min
pages 75-80

on discolored days / Lune Bush

1min
page 68

Daylight saving time ends. / Lila Goldstein

1min
page 67

x-ed out / Oakley Marton

5min
pages 71-74

The Remembered Dog / Will Conley

1min
page 66

cardamom / Jackie Hahn

1min
page 64

Coolit / Silvie Schlein

2min
pages 60-61

Decades of Passing / Jen Thornquest

3min
pages 62-63

Song for Goodbyes / Qiao Se Ong

2min
pages 58-59

Louise / Danyah Shaikh

2min
pages 54-55

Jenny / Declan Langton

2min
pages 56-57

service / Lila Goldstein

2min
pages 52-53

peachy clean / Layne McArdle

1min
page 47

Oil Paint / Lee Heintzelman

1min
page 48

guilty / Grace McMurray

1min
page 45

abject horror! / Ava Provolo

1min
page 37

on getting a tattoo / Halle Wyatt

1min
page 46

Which Horror Movie Trope... / Morgan Sammut

7min
pages 38-42

entre/e / Gabrielle Rodriguez Gonzalez

1min
page 36

Jello / Danyah Shaikh

2min
pages 43-44

the procedure / Gina Pasciuto

1min
pages 34-35

Don’t Touch the Glass / Rebecca Kilroy

10min
pages 22-28

Back to the Basics / Amelia Ostling

2min
pages 16-17

foster ghosts / Layne McArdle

2min
page 33

Diary Entry 202: Does the Dog Die? / Regis Reed

5min
pages 11-14

dionysus / Elle Provolo

1min
page 29

living room interlude / Lila Goldstein

1min
page 15

catching flies / Elle Provolo

1min
page 19

Nightstalker / Sandra Grace

1min
pages 20-21
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