A flash fiction by Erica Fransisca.

When your job requires you to enter people’s worst nightmares, there are few things in the world that can scare you. As a Dreamcatcher, I’ve fought monsters of all kinds, faced the foulest ghosts, experienced the most horrific disasters, overcome tremendous fears and dealt with heart-wrenching heartbreaks.

And yet no matter how many nightmares I’ve vanquished and skilled I become, there’s one thing that still makes my heart lurch with unbearable dread.

As I sheathed my blood-soaked sword and stepped over the demon’s corpse, I retrieved the phone that stopped ringing a minute too soon.

1 missed call from Mom.

This flash fiction was first published in deviantArt.

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