135 UNEXPECTED NIGHTMARES

Luke stared intently at the computer screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard as he worked on an urgent project. The office hummed with the usual sounds of ringing phones and clattering keyboards, but Luke's focus was abruptly interrupted by a notification on his phone. He glanced at the screen and followed his first instinct to ignore the sound. His mind zeroed in on the broadsheet but then his phone vibrated yet again. He looked over at his phone intending to ignore it but eventually, his curiosity got the best of him. He wanted to know who was chatting him up. "Who could that be?" He thought to himself. He reached for his phone, swiping up the screen to unlock it. It was a text message from an unknown number. The moment that he opened the message his world stilled and the world around him seemed to go quiet. His heart tightened and his chest seemed to constrict his lungs as he looked at the image that sat on his screen. He began to feel a sense of urgency like none before