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Submitted to Contest #90
Time passed in a dizzy haze, and I couldn’t distinguish the realm between dreams and reality. I feel trapped, yet afloat, and there was nothing but darkness. I tried to wiggle my body, but I had no control. I feel so numb and I don’t want to feel numb. I can’t tell if I’m positioned upright or downright. I attempt to look up and down, but it was hard to separate the two. I looked to the side, and there was no resistance in my neck as my entire head spun around back to. The creepy thing is, I didn’t feel the strain of my flesh or bon...
Submitted to Contest #84
Iris glared at the senescent tower’s plain ceiling in frustration, and the isolated, dry, oak bedframe creaked under her weight as she got out of bed. She couldn’t remember what day it was, or even the time for that matter.The monitor orb floating inches below the conical spire and her ankle monitor flickered occasionally to update her status in the prison tower. Iris guessed that it sent reports on her every hour or so, but she couldn’t bother to calculate the exact time it took to update. Iris spent every night watching the sun set and kee...
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