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It all began with a nightmare. Disappearances ensued. First a girl working in a BPO. Next a corporate employee. Third a family of husband, wife and their young daughter. Different people. Different secrets. Different ways of death. But now it seems someone is controlling them. Does the dead really die or change worlds of different dimensions in space and time ? What if we close our eyes one night and wake up in an alternate reality the next morning ? The Mechanic is a pervert psychopath from parallel universe who likes to haunt and terrify it's victims in their dreams before killing them - thus spreading a chain of never - ending horror. It never forgives. It never forgets. It never dies. It lives forever to kill. There is just one way of stopping him unleash hell. No matter what happens DON'T FALL ASLEEP.

Don't Fall Asleep

When I came infront of the store room, it was locked from outside. Sliding the hatch bolt open I flashed my torch inside. There was no one in the room except the remains of the abandoned dolls on the rack. Unlike the day when these inanimate, crippled figures fetched pity and laughter; now in the dark they acquired a ghastly look. It seemed they were all alive and my torchlight had awakened them from their sleep. I could bet I saw one of them flash their eyelids. 


Suddenly I heard the scurrying of a pair of tiny feet behind me. I turned back brandishing my knife only to find a blank wall staring at my face. A putrid smell filled the room like the one I had experienced at Raghu's godown, a little while ago. My heart had started beating in my mouth in anticipation of an impending disaster . One of the dolls had its head severed off, with the trunk missing. I was so startled that it made me jump out of my skin. The rack was stained with paint and it was sticky to touch. I searched frantically for the doll Nisha or any trace which would lead to my wife and daughter.


Hearing someone groan I rushed outside and found to my dismay my wife lying on the floor with a knife lodged in her chest . The floor had turned into a pool of blood and I wanted to kill myself for staying inside the store room uselessly. Seeing her gasping for breath I was reduced to tears. All the moments we'd spent together rolled out like a video film before my eyes .. Our college days .. marriage finally solemnised amidst adversities .. the birth of our only child. 


My world was falling to pieces now and I knew I could do nothing to prevent it. I told myself I was through a bad dream and it will pass. Like in a dream I took out the knife slowly and bandaged the wound with my shirt before making a futile attempt of blowing air into her lungs . Her lips felt cold and smelt strangely of plastic. Her eyes had widened and she was trying to say something amidst her gasps . As I laid her on the bed her finger pointed to something in the room but I didn't care.


Then the transformation started taking place before my eyes like those horror movies. I saw her skin to peel off her body, revealing her flesh, bones and arteries. Her head got severed from her body by some invisible blade. Her heart slowed it's beating and came to a stop finally as a putrid smell of rotten flesh filled the air . I saw her flesh coming off her skeleton and sliding down to the floor below like thick molten plastic. One by one her limbs got severed off her body, disintegrating into a thick liquid of red and blue, fuming and sizzling . Then her trunk and head was gone and I found myself staring at an empty bed. 


Now it was behind me again. But this time it didn't run away. I could feel it creeping behind me .. waiting for me to turn back. I knew what it was now and was prepared to face it.


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Don't Fall Asleep is available only on Meganovel and  Bravonovel platforms now. To read further episodes of this series download the app from Google play or App Store.


https://www.meganovel.com/book_info/31000298805/


https://www.bravonovel.com/dont-fall-asleep-9602


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