A Bear of Very Little Brain

A Bear of Very Little Brain by Julian Obedient.

Despite all my efforts, all my efforts, my eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, heavier and heavier, falling shut and I couldn’t sleep them open, keep them open, though I was trying, I couldn’t keep them open, keep them up, up, open, and Daddy’s voice was trailing off into cloudy distances even as I was trying so hard to listen because he was (hard) reading my favorite story, and I was trying to hold (hard) on to the words and not sink in to the sleep, deep, but I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Sleep!…

• A Bear of Very Little Brain by: Julian Obedient