title: Nightlight: A Memoir
author:  Janine Avril 
description: <DIV>Janine Avril teaches high school English and has taught college writing at Brooklyn College and New York City College of Technology. She has been published in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Velvet Park Magazine, and Topic magazine for her piece 'Eavesdro</DIV>
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  ## Wake
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Лиза Макманн
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is
  getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices
  dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last
  her a lifetime.
  
  
  
  
  
  She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or
  worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with
  an ability she doesn't want and can't control.
  
  
  
  
  
  Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For
  the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche.
  She is a participant....
  
  
  
  
  
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  **SIX MINUTES**
  
  
  
  
  
  December 9, 2005, 12:55 p.m.
  
  
  Janie Hannagan’ s math book slips from her fingers. She grips the edge of the
  table in the school library. Everything goes black and silent. She sighs and
  rests her head on the table. Tries 