“Attack”

The boyfriend returns, running back to the young woman’s doorway panic-stricken and breathless. He urgently asks her what’s wrong.

She is beside herself, wide-eyed, very afraid, in tears, and her voice is faltering as she attempts to explain to him that she awoke from her nightmare to find bizarre and terrifying marks on her face and body. After seeing the malevolent marks, he is aghast, and momentarily speechless.

After a long pause, he frantically asks her what they are. She screams back that she doesn’t know, so he insists they go to a hospital immediately.

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Tags: beside herself, bizarre, blotches, boyfriend, curse, deadly disease, deadly marks, doom, emergency, fear, girlfriend, hospital, illness, malevolent, modern opera, sad, sickness, terror