"The witching hour, someone had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves." Roald Dahl, "The BFG," about five minutes before the protagonist is kidnapped by a giant. As a kid I was obsessed with this idea of a witching hour, a time when, I imagined, every person living in my town, everyone I'd ever met and everyone they'd ever met, would be simultaneously asleep. I drove myself into paroxysms of insomnia trying to make it to that magic moment when I would be the only one awake in the whole wide world, except of course the dark and fantastical creatures I was dying to meet. [More]














Source: Step into the Twilight Zone: Day 25, or A Walk Through Santiago's Witching Hour