How Fear Can Make Or Break You

There’s a feeling you get when you are home alone in the middle of the night. It stirs you awake and leaves you wondering whether your soul is truly the only one in your bedroom. A dash of panic and you try your best to remind yourself to breathe. You contemplate the idea of asking for help. You wish for a living companion to come and comfort you from the uncertainties the lie waiting in the dark.

I occasionally try to bottle this feeling only to let it run rampant on the page. I recently turned this irrational yet inherent fear into a new short story. I was also given the opportunity to have the suspenseful story published in an anthology that was put together by the small indie publishing house, Z Publishing.

“In The Dead of Night” is all about that feeling of being watched in the most vulnerable way. It’s about how real irrational fear can feel for the person who is experiencing it. Recognizing these fears and elaborating on them reveals the commonality of these feelings in all people. It’s very human to feel afraid sometimes, but it is what we do with that fear that makes or breaks us.

I have dabbled in telling short stories of suspense for a while now. However, I never followed through with the majority of them by submitting them to publishing houses or in contests until just recently. “In The Dead of Night” is the second short story…