ALONE IN HER OWN BED

Roland C. Bonay

It was well past midnight and despite the sedative given to her by Pablo, her nurse, Dora Moorewas afraid to sleep for fear she'd have another nightmare where she’d dream violent dreams of guns and sometimes knives; of war and death and armies of men invading and ransacking the house in which she lived.  She dreamed of old movie monsters chasing her on her way home from school.  She could never run fast enough and just as the monster had her within reach she'd wake up from the terror of her dreams crying into her pillow as she clutched her favorite doll, still afraid to go to sleep at night, alone in her own bed.

She dreamed handsome young men would enter her bedroom as she brushed her soft brown hair by the lamp near the open window where the sheer curtains billowed in the wind while she gazed at the clouds drifting past the full moon.  With shiny metal scoops, like the ones she remembered from the huge ice-making machine in the kitchen of the nursing home where her mother once worked, they'd pour diamonds at her pretty feet.

She found herself outside in the middle of a raging snowstorm while dirty gray snowmen shoveled dirty gray snow at her dirty gray frostbitten feet.  She noticed a pack of snarling wild reindeer with gnarled antlers and sharp teeth.  They were tied to an old tree from which she was afraid they'd break free (which, of course, they did).  They nipped at her once pretty ankles as she lay perched upon mountains of trash outside of the kitchen of the nursing home where her mother once worked.  And just as they were about to sink their dripping fangs into her comely flesh, she'd awake from the terror of her dreams crying into her blanket as she clutched her favorite doll, still afraid to go to sleep at night, alone in her own bed.

BIO: Roland C. Bonay is an engineer in NJ with a passion for writing and drawing.  Bonay discovered his flair for telling stories at an early age and dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol, comic book legend, Stan Lee.  His passion ebbed and his dream faded as it became necessary to pursue a more traditional lifestyle in order to raise his growing family.  His dream was rekindled in early 2009 and Roland worked feverishly to create the popular Learn to Draw Cartoons Online website .  Roland’s vision is best summed up by his motto; The world would be a better place if we all just learned to draw!  http://rcbonayatwork.com/.