The nightmares had started in Michigan, followed her to Illinois, and then disrupted her sleep in Baltimore.
She never knew when she might wake up outside or wake up to her own blood curdling screams.
Ed accused her of things constantly. Infidelity. The emotional and physical abuse haunted her sleep.
One night she woke running. She was running and screaming toward a bedroom wall.
Defying gravity she felt herself up along the middle of the wall clawing and trying to climb up and away from someone or something before landing back down on the carpet.
She stood there for a minute her heavy breaths heaving her chest up and down.
Then she turned and quietly went back to bed.
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