Sleep paralysis, my brain repeats, groggy, as if that is a better worry. It can be caused by any number of reasons, such as a poor sleep schedule, not actually sleeping, stress, and sleeping on your back.

I am a high-achieving teenager whose ex-best friend is the only person who knows she's bisexual and dealing with the return of family shit; a recent high school graduate hustling for money she so doesn't have to burden her hard-working refugee mother; and someone who has reliably slept on her back since infancy.

"Thank you, internet. Very helpful." I aggressively clear the browser history.

— She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Page 34)