"Night Watcher"

I woke up in the middle of the night to a soft sound, like someone shifting their weight in

the room. I told myself it was just the house settling, but then I heard

my motion alert chime quietly from my phone on the nightstand. I frowned,

confused. I hadn’t gotten out of bed. I picked up my phone and opened the camera

feed to my bedroom, expecting to see nothing. The room looked exactly the same

as always—dim, quiet, ordinary. Then I noticed the bed.

I was lying in it, asleep. I stared at the screen, my mind trying to

explain it away. A delay. A glitch. Anything. The camera angle