Review – Nothing Good Ever Happens at 3 AM
So Nothing Good Ever Happens at 3 AM was the kind of strange story which I often love to write but equally often can’t find an audience. Yet this one did.
So thank you to Unfading Daydream for publishing it!
Background
So my main idea with Nothing Good Ever Happens at 3 AM was to create a First Contact story that would be totally and utterly off the wall. Because, so far as I am concerned, there is just no way in hell that aliens are ever going to behave like us. They won’t think like us. I mean, we don’t think like pigeons—and they’re actually from here. Aliens have got to be different from us.
Whatever we think is logical, they might find wacky. Hence, wacky aliens.
Plot
Insomnia has our narrator in its nasty grip. So instead of trying to sleep, she gets up, in an effort to make the most of it. Until one day, she learns how – and why – she can’t sleep. And it’s got nothing to do with caffeine intake, exercise, or worry.
Characters
The characters are the unnamed narrator and the ‘people’ she meets. Some are human. Others? Not so much.
Memorable Quotes from Nothing Good Ever Happens at 3 AM
For the past year, I have woken up, without fail, at 2:58 AM and then not gotten back to sleep. It isn’t even that I’m so troubled or busy. I stopped using caffeine and all of that. I even – horrors – gave up chocolate. But it’s no use. I am destined to get up at that ungodly hour, even if I just got to bed not fifteen minutes previously.
Rating
The story has a K rating.
Nothing Good Ever Happens at 3 AM: Upshot
The notion of aliens doing something strange and, perhaps, the antithesis of what we would expect, was irresistible. Where we would see an enemy as wanting to decimate the numbers of its rivals, these aliens do the opposite.
Or maybe they just want to eat us. The truth is, I never really worked out exactly why they were there in the first place.
Oops.
Nothing good ever happens at 3 AM in reality. But what if that was the time when the aliens come out to play?