Nightmare

I wander a strange landscape, monsters wandering in the distant nightfall. I choose to hide in an enormous, derelict tube, certain that it is safer than the dark wasteland. I am unable to rest, knowing what is outside, and I feel that something else hides with me, deep in the perfect blackness of the tube, and I wonder if I have merely traded one horrid fate for another. I hear dripping, but more than that, I hear breathing, barely audible. As it gets closer, my heart beats faster, I can't move, or even breath, paralyzed with fear. I make out movement in the darkness, and I want to run. As I see the vague outline of something beyond imagination, I awake. I do not feel relief however, as in every dark corner I see horrors waiting to attack. Eventually, I muster the courage to sleep once again, and enter, yet another, hell.