Startle

This short read is a true, straightforward, matter-of-fact account of a brief, mystifying episode in my life. Although the experience was terrifying to me, it is not written to terrify others. I had had PTSD for thirty years when, at the age of forty-nine, I began seeing apparitions in my apartment, which ultimately manifested in blacker-than-black figures. Was I hallucinating from sleep deprivation? Were they ghosts? Or were they darker energies? You decide.