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Chapters (36)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Tricia Sullivan
  3. Also by Tricia Sullivan and available from Titan Books
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Body confidence
  7. The first cut
  8. Cardboard box in Wandsworth Town
  9. How not to be a doormat
  10. ASMR
  11. The pigeon sisters
  12. Flowers for Algernon: the club remix
  13. Copernican Principle
  14. The Dark Side
  15. Why
  16. Creeper
  17. Sleepwalkers Anonymous
  18. Oneric Crime
  19. Our friend can go again
  20. Unique and impactful
  21. Doctor Lady Reverend
  22. Stack
  23. Cone of Silence
  24. Two takeaways plus tea
  25. Sleep paralysis personified
  26. Knitters, cat-lovers, tea-drinkers
  27. Big sky
  28. Little bird
  29. Mrs H-W strikes back
  30. Unfair to snakes
  31. For real
  32. Moose reserve
  33. Delivered by ghost pigeon
  34. Awake
  35. Acknowledgements
  36. About The Author

DC: Hey, Sleeping Beauty! We’re in the middle of an interview here.

RP: Have some water, Charlotte.

CA: You guys, you guys! I get it now. You’re Mulder and you must be Scully.

RP: I wanted to be Scully.

DC: A person is dead. I don’t think jokes are appropriate.

CA: I do think it’s my fault, in a way. I know I’m not supposed to say that. This isn’t a confession, OK? But I feel like I should have stopped it somehow. I was right there. I didn’t know she was sleepwalking. But I should have been on my guard, after what happened with the water.

DC: What happened with the water?

CA: I told you. She was asleep with her face in a bathtub full of water. In real life. In the dream, though, he was holding her down.

RP: He? Who?

CA: I don’t know. He had a mask on. I should have . . . I don’t know! I was going to say I should have called somebody, but who do you call?

RP: Ghostbusters? Sorry.

DC: Us. You call us. That’s our job.

CA: That’s what he said. The Creeper. He said, ‘Who are you going to call, the Dream Police?’ I thought he was being snitty, but what’s the actual deal with you lot? Do you know what’s going on here? Have there been other cases? What do you know about this stuff?

DC: Can you remember anything else about him, Charlie? This man in the dream.

CA: Hard drugs, that’s the only way. She should have been treated by a doctor. I never imagined it could come to this. You’re right. I’m responsible. I don’t have insurance for this kind of thing.

RP: None of us can change the past, Charlie. We can’t bring Melodie Tan back. But we can investigate and if there’s been a crime, we can pursue the criminal. That’s why we really need you to remember.

CA: How do I know you’re not in on it?

DC: What?

CA: You guys came up to me in the hotel lobby. You said you were with Special Branch, but here we are in a kebab shop in Stratford. Even Mulder and Scully had offices. And they wore nicer clothes. Or are you BigSky? Shandy says they don’t have proper offices, just a bank of servers in Shoreham. Even the execs float around. Are you guys BigSky?

RP: No, we’re not BigSky. Cutbacks, Charlie. We’ve all got to tighten our belts.

CA: Yeah? Well, I don’t want to be unkind, Roman, but the way you’re packing away that kebab, your belt is going to need an extra notch.

RP: That actually is unkind. I’m an emotional eater and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t fat-shame.