The Nightmare Stories is a series of self-insertion stories that are pretty much the exact opposite of Dreamworld. These are the waking nightmares, the things you hope will never happen, the things that have the potential to occur. While you are daydreaming of your hopes and dreams, eventually your fears will push forward and manifest.
A nightmare is fed before it is born.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a
super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing
potential for nightmares.
—Peter Ustinov
The Nightmare Stories
Clinical.
When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is
not when life begins, but when love begins.
—Robert Casey
Manic.
As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered
that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane
environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.
—James Agee
Sick.
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing
with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
—John Hersey
