This prompt is not doing a lot for me right now. I’m trying to think of some way to make the prompt the end of the story, and there are probably dozens of ways — hundreds, probably — to write a short piece that would end with that line, but no ideas are coming to me.

Analyzing it from a left-brain standpoint, it makes sense that if the story ended like that, a situation might arise in which two characters were discussing something that one of them does. One character just found out about it, and is confused and bewildered by it, the other character (the one doing the actions in the middle of the night) acts as if the action is perfectly natural.

I’m seeing a father and son in this story; the father has just discovered something that has been happening, is intrigued by it, and just found out that his son is behind it. His son, on the other hand, has done whatever this action is for as long as he can remember, and it’s second nature to him. The father approaches the son about the events occurring in the middle of the night in wonder and disbelief.

But what does the child do? Does he create the stars? Does he not sleep? Does he unknowingly knit the Universe together in the night? Is he some kind of dream filter, who receives all the dreams that people are having, jumbles them together, and doles them back out again, randomly?

That last idea is pretty interesting … I wonder if I will be able to come up with a story format for it.