Sleep Journal - Fairge Anma - 190223

Sleep Journal
23 February 2019
Sarah Farris

It was a great exit line. Too bad I didn't have anywhere to exit to.

I stormed off up the hill toward the Psych building, leaving Justine to lock up her car.

She didn't catch me up until I was half-way up the hill.

"So." she said, winded and puffing from the effort. "My car; how long will it last?"

I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, wondering what she was going on about. "I'm neither a mechanic nor a seer," I said shortly.

She laughed. "No. I mean ... I saw what you did when you got in and whatever it was, it worked." I still had no clue what she was talking about. "We hit every light green on the way here."

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Sleep Journal - Fairge Anma - Index of Entries

When I was very young, three or four years old, I did not want to take a nap and my mother was too frayed to handle it so my dad did. I remember that he told me to lie in bed and tell myself a story and I could get up after five minutes.

Naturally, I fell asleep. I started telling myself stories at night in bed to fall asleep after that and did for ... well decades, until recently (past 5 or 10 years). It's harder now to visualize the stories and the effort is waking my brain making it harder to fall asleep.

Then I found out that if I write the stories down ... physically, pen to paper ... just before turning the lights out, I fall asleep more easily.

I don't know where this story will go. I don't know if it will be complete. But these are what I have written so far. There is a delay, because it takes me a while to keyboard in what I've written and ... sometimes, I have to re-think a bit or wait until a block readjusts in my headspace.

Chapter 1 - Intro: Sarah Farris is hiding. She's convinced that someone is looking for her and for six years she has successfully hidden. Now she needs a psychology elective and both Child Psych and Human Sexuality leave her cold. But is parapsychology what she needs? Or will it end up destroying her? - 190109 - 1323 words
Chapter 2 - Despite her best efforts, Sarah makes a friend in the parapsychology class; a young man named Craig. To her dismay, she discovers that he is not exactly who she thought he was. - 190110 - 2089 words
Chapter 3 - Sarah takes counsel with St. Brigid and works a spell to protect herself from the duplicitous Craig Stevenson. - 190112 - 1118 words
Chapter 4 - Ghostbusting 101 lecture. Sarah learns that she wasn't quite as invisible as she thought she was. - 190113 - 1472 words
Chapter 5 - Sarah has a panic attack - 190114 - 2095 words
Chapter 6 - Craig and Justine review the results of the pre-cog and telepathy trials. They do not agree on the conclusions. - 190115 - 1712 words
Chapter 7 - Craig and Justine are called to investigate a possible scene of devil worshipping in the library. - 190116 - 2984 words
Chapter 8 - Justine calls reinforcements to the library investigation. - 190119 - 3116 words
Chapter 9 - Sarah gets some hard advice on her life from an unlikely source. - 190120 - 1898 words
Chapter 10 - Another incident in the library; Craig and his colleagues investigate. - 190127 - 2280 words
Chapter 11- Acting on the advice she recently received, Sarah applies for an internship with the Parapsychology group. - 190122 - 2608 words
Chapter 12 - Sarah tutors Dr. Monaghan's interns in the mechanics of spell-writing. - 190201 - 4586 words
Chapter 13 - Craig comes face to face with some hard truths - 190203 - 3032 words
Chapter 14 - Situation in the Parapsychology Office - 190206 - 1878 words
Chapter 15 - Talking Sarah down - 190207 - 3539 words
Chapter 16 - Situation solved, going home - 190214 - 3799 words
Chapter 17 - Little Harmonic Labyrinth; Justine is suspicious of Sarah, Craig decides to investigate alone - 190220 - 2986 words
Chapter 18 - Craig is missing. Sarah offers to help find him. Justine questions her motives. - 190221 - 4533 words
Chapter 19 - Justine drives Sarah to campus, Sarah prepares to craft a working - 190223 - 2437 words