“Each waking holds its own risk. There's a slippage. A break between the person you were before you went to sleep and the person you are after your dreams have had their way with you. You go to sleep hoping you'll wake, knowing you might not. But, even if you've made it through the night more or less intact, you can't shake the feeling that the room you woke up in isn't the same one you went to sleep in.”
—Ricky Fayne, Book III, My Brothers Keeper, from The Devil Three Times (2025)









