The Sleepwalking Murderer

by Emy Henson

She walks down a neighborhood street at midnight as icy cold December air lightly blows into her face, eyes closed and quiet snores escaping her slightly parted lips. The bloody weapon falls to the ground as her hand loses its grip on the sturdy handle. She had just killed a family of three, she had broken into their home and murdered the mother, father, and teenage son who had been living an ordinary life until this fateful night. She arrives outside a small home in the same neighborhood, walks up the lawn, and enters through the unlocked door. She walks down a hallway and through an open door to a bedroom, changes into silk pajamas, and gets into the large bed. She awakes the next morning, changes into her police uniform, gets a report of another murder just down the street from her house, and prepares herself to continue the search to find this unknown murderer, unaware that it is herself.

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Emy Henson is a high school student who just started writing again after losing her motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic and is trying to get better every day.