Don’t Sleep with the Dead is marketed as a standalone novella, and I would argue that it isn’t, quite. Throughout, Don’t Sleep with the Dead engages in a complex meta-textual dance that never allows the reader to alight on certainties. Don’t Sleep with the Dead is no exception. In this way, Don’t Sleep with the Dead holds as its central tension the simultaneous possibility and impossibility of wiping away past lives and past decisions. In Don’t Sleep with the Dead, we see that Nick hasn’t managed the same—but Vo asks us to consider if there is any true freedom from love.