Night Terrors

Creative Nonfiction by Cori Matusow

February 21, 11:43pm

There are ten thousand little black spiders on my pillow. I shriek and fling it across my room and immediately discover thousands more spiders on my bedsheet. I frantically wipe them all away with my hand as if they were scuttling cookie crumbs. A few seconds later, all the spiders are gone. I get up to retrieve my pillow from the fl…