Eliot falls asleep in New York. He wakes somewhere else. Each morning brings a new place, stranger than the last. Familiar rules begin to bend. Streets shift. Rooms distort. Faces linger too long. And with every impossible awakening, one thought grows harder to ignore: He has to get home. When I Wake is a haunting short story of shifting realities, quiet dread, and the fragile line between dreaming and waking. Sometimes the only way home... is through sleep.