MicroHorror

When night falls and darkness descends, nightmares hold sway over captive sleepers. A bored teenager sneaks out to meet a man she just met online. A drunken lout beats and berates his wife while neighbors turn up their televisions in ambivalence and denial. A lonely old man scrawls a note and swallows a fistful of pills. A skinny woman craving a fix shivers on a street corner and waits for someone… anyone. Thieves smash car windows on side streets, grabbing stereos to pawn. Lies are told. Blood is spilled. Sirens wail.

Then the first light of dawn kisses the horizon and daylight approaches.

Soon the real trouble will begin.