Matthew Lambert

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“Remember Astrid” by Matthew Lambert

Submitted to Contest #243

Is the world burning? I blink my eyes open to the glare of amber light, and a suffocating heat prickling my skin and filling my lungs. There’s a throbbing pain inside my skull and everything’s blurred, as if a dense fog envelops me.   I try to roll over, but my arm is snagged. Above me a dark figure drifts by. I peer hard at it. Human, but unmoving. A corpse? I call out, but receive no reply. Around it a cloud of tiny specks swirl like snowflakes in a blizzard, only so slowly it’s as if time itself is grinding to a halt. I reach up...

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