For the dark hours when you dare not close your eyes, it's the no sleep podcast featuring

stories from reddit.com's no sleep forum. Join us as the sleepless hours tick past.

Our first tale is entitled Tales of a New York Subway written by Colin Thompson and

read by Ginny Sanders.

A girl named Laura was traveling back to her apartment from work late at night in New York

City. She was a little nervous about taking the subway so late but she figured that there

probably wouldn't be many people riding it. She decided against the cab and headed down

into the subway. When she got on the subway she was surprised to see that there were

in fact three people already sitting there. Two large, suited men in dark sunglasses

and a little girl in between them. Laura was surprised to see such a young girl on

the subway at this time of night but based on how she was dressed in her designer sunglasses,

Laura figured the men were escorts or bodyguards for the daughter of someone wealthy.

Laura took her seat across from the trio. If anybody else gave her trouble she was sure

the strong men would help her out. At the next stop the man in his late twenties or

early thirties got on to the subway at the other end of the car from Laura. He was clearly

very, very tired and quite unkempt. His shirt was wrinkled and definitely not clean

and he had what looked like a few days worth of stubble. The man was exactly the type of

individual Laura hoped to avoid on her ride home. Still the dragiled figure was certainly

no match for the men who sat across from her. As the subway moved on though, Laura noticed

something very odd. The man at the other end of the car would glance up, look slowly

at Laura, then at the men, then at the girl, and back to Laura. He did this several times

before the next stop, at which point he got up and moved a few seats closer to Laura

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