title: Alex and the Sleep Monster
author: Adrian Marsden
description: Adrian Marsden is first and foremost a storyteller. His mediums are vast and range from writing and producing to voice-over acting and mask making. He works as a Hollywood producer by night, and an amazing father by day. He is currently on lap number thirty-two around the sun.
zlib_text: Alex and The Gruff (a tale of horror)
   
  By
   
  C.SeanMcGee
  
   
   
  Alex and The Gruff (a tale of horror)
  “politeness is the discipline of abuse”
  Copyright© Cian Sean McGee
  CSM Publishing
  Published at Smashwords
  Araraquara, Brazil 2014
  Second Edition
   
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by
  any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording,
  scanning or digital information storage and retrieval without permission
  from the author.
   
  Cover Design: C. Sean McGee
  Interior layout: C. Sean McGee
  Author Foto: Carla Raiter
   
  
   
   
  "Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in
  seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force
  of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one will ever come to
  their rescue. Infants do not soothe themselves. They merely surrender. And it
  is caged in their cribs where the infants learn, in the face of their demons, to
  remain silent and submitting"
  
   