By

S.J Asher

Daily writing prompt

Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.

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I sit across from Sajra, her eyes like black holes absorbing light. 

She calls herself a Dream Technician. 

I call her the most unsettling person I’ve ever met.

“What exactly do you do?” I ask, my pen hovering over blank paper.

She smiles. “I fix nightmares. Or break dreams. Depends on who’s paying.”

“How does that work?”

“Think of dreams as code. I’m a hacker of the subconscious…” 

“But how?”

“With neurotransmitter array. It’s a mesh of nanobots that settles over the cerebral cortex during REM sleep”

I swallow hard. “Is it… legal?”

Sajra laughs, “Law hasn’t caught up with dream tech yet. We operate in the shadows of sleep.”

“We?” I ask.

Her eyes narrow. “There are others. Competitors. Some with… less savory methods.”

 “Have you ever refused a job?”

Sajra’s face darkens. “Once. I don’t touch kids’ minds. There are lines even I won’t cross.”

I notice a faint shimmer at her temples – almost invisible neural implants, I realize. 

I leave the interview with more questions than answers, and somehow, I’m afraid to go to sleep.