A dream. Maybe all this fickling has affected my dream-teller? Good night.

Certainly has the frantic, paranoid, nightmarish quality of a (bad) dream, reinforced by the first person narrative.

This is a solid set-up with enough little details sprinkled throughout to make it feel real, and intriguing. Thanks for letting us inside your head…

I like it. Slight variant on the zombie story perhaps. It reads well and puts us in this guy’s shoes. I like the term ilagula—not one I’ve heard before, but it’s nice to have a name for it.