A Realistic Night With Your New Sleep Tracker

Your dog tutted in your general direction. He was definitely pressed about something…

Stephanie Redmond
Jane Austen’s Wastebasket

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Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

Thank you for choosing Nosy Nights Sleep Tracker! Due to increasingly unnerving technology, ever rising lucrative offers for invasive data, and mankind’s love language being cold hard cash, we can now track exactly what woke you in the night, when and for how long.

11:28 P.M. — sleep commences

11.55 P.M. — 45 seconds awake
You needed to pee.

11.59 P.M. — 2 seconds awake
Your dog jumped off the bed.

12.01 A.M — 3 seconds awake
Your dog jumped back onto the bed.

12.21 A.M. — 1 minute 38 seconds awake
You needed to pee.

12:34 A.M. — 1 second awake
Your partner entered the room.

12:35 A.M. — 4 seconds awake
Your partner stubbed his toe and shouted, “Shhhhhhhhhhh.”

12:35 A.M. — 4 seconds awake
Your partner attempted to whisper, “iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.”

12:36 A.M. — 44 seconds awake
Your partner said, “Please can you scooch over…

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Stephanie Redmond
Jane Austen’s Wastebasket

Humour writer, which you may know as humor. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Belladonna, Points in Case, and the birthday cards I send to my dog.