title: Nocturnal Daydreams: Two Tales of Terror
author: M.B. Elkins
description: M.B. Elkins is an actor, writer, independent filmmaker and teacher that resides in California. He has penned over twenty original stage plays, numerous short films scripts and a handful of screenplays. He remains busy honing his craft in front of and behind the camera, as well as on stage. Nocturnal Daydreams is his first novel.
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  **Dawn of the Yeti**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Winchester Malone
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Published by Brew City Press**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Chapter One**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It’s when the wind
  
  
  isn’t howling in my ears that I can’t sleep. On the clear nights, when the
  
  
  clouds are missing and the stars glare down at us with their faraway warmth
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  the sounds of screams are unhampered by falling snow, I toss and turn, trying
  
  
  to shut out the cries and pray for the wind to kick up and the world weep and
  
  
  moan.
  
  
  
  
  
  Tonight is one of
  
  
  those nights. The sounds of rampaging monsters and screaming victims fill my
  
  
  ears as I huddle closer to my pack. They shiver alongside me, thinking the
  same
  
  
  things, wishing our ears would go deaf, wondering if the Jo-Bran will find us,
  
  
  wondering when they will find us. Because they will. They always do.
  
  
  
  
  
  “You asleep, Tom,”
  
  
  Charles says, his voice hardly audible.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Am I ever on a
  
  
  night like this?”
  