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Submitted to Contest #309
The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here. The floor is like hot coals on my blistering fingers. My breath is labored, becoming viciously apparent to me as the oxygen floods my lungs and so does the pain. Like sharp, metallic teeth, the agony bites down hard on every inch of my quaking limbs—and yet slowly, I lift my trembling and triumphant head. Staring back at me is a young woman. Her pale skin is cracking, dry, and caked with dirt or ash. Her mousy hair is stringy and hanging in her face. The strands billow as her breath exhaus...
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