11.   It was my worst nightmare come true.

12.   My personal travel nightmare came on the final trip, which went from Shreveport to Dallas to Washington and then in reverse order to return.

13.   Sometimes, too, nightmares come true.

14.   Sure, he got his share of bangs, bumps and stitches, but my most morbid nightmares never came to pass and he has survived intact.

15.   The reality is, the nightmares still come to get him like executioners in the middle of the night.

16.   The science-fiction nightmare came true Sunday.

17.   The second nightmare came several minutes later, with Atlanta still trying to make a game of it.

18.   They have something to take if their nightmare comes true.

19.   They stood quietly bearing mute witness to the ugly idea that dreaming is for dummies because only nightmares come true.