Nix ♞

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“The Aid of Others” by Nix ♞

Submitted to Contest #48

He moans and moans. I sit there. I rub his back. Under his shirt. I rub it under his shirt. The skin feels terrible. This happens when he tries to stop. He aches, and shakes and sweats, too, and sometimes he sees things, even. I wonder if he stops seeing things, if he stops seeing me, he must, I figure. I figure, in order to see something, you have to stop seeing something else, don’t you? That’s what they call zero-sum. There’s seen, unseen, a winner, loser.Now and then I leave the room just to check, when the feeling gets big enough, ...

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