At 12:45am this morning I’m pulled from sleep like a Cylon from an airlock to the inky depths of awakefulness (finally getting to my BluRay collection – like the simile?). I lay on my side, eyes closed wondering what just happened. Did I dream something? <\/p>\n

Memory reboot.<\/p>\n

As my brain comes online I realize I was woken by a thump above my head. I pieced together the noise and the plaster falling from the ceiling as being two parts of a memory puzzle that had just happened.<\/p>\n

The neighbour has fallen…<\/p>\n

I lay there silent, wondering what the hell I should do next. My primal sleepy brain instantly thought that if the neighbor upstairs had fallen and because the noise was so heavy, so meaty, there was a good chance he hit his head on the way down. It did sound like a 210lbs watermelon bouncing off hardwood. And if that was the case I was going to start feeling his blood drip on my face soon.<\/p>\n

Stupid sleepy primal brain.<\/p>\n

“Marfgkl,” I hear, muffled though the floorboards.<\/p>\n

Another thump. Not as shocking, threatening, hits the floor. His arm?<\/p>\n

After ten minutes, the sleepy primal brain changes to the uncaring, heartless brain, hoping he’ll bleed out and we get a new neighbour who doesn’t fall down at 1am for liquid reasons.<\/p>\n

Twenty minutes pass and I hear what could be crawling to the bathroom. The shower turns on.<\/p>\n

I fall asleep to images of black and white blood, swirling down the drain, a la Psycho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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