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October 4, 2022 5 Comments

By Hayden Waller

Sometimes in the small hours of the night, when the veil between worlds is thinnest, I remember. I rest my hands on the bars of my squalid cell and stare down the infinite rows of blocks just like it. A voice, like a whisper from the bottom of a well, reminds me. Only my mind is here, in this prison. My physical body is elsewhere—some squalid room in the ‘real’ world—hooked up to a bank of cables as I serve out my thousand-year sentence in this illusory nightmare. And in the morning, when the torments begin anew, I’ll forget.

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  1. Derek says

    October 4, 2022 at 11:51 am

    Nightmares can become too real.

    Reply
  2. Sharon says

    October 4, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    Oh my goodness. Very powerful.

    Reply
  3. Yogita says

    October 5, 2022 at 7:07 am

    Very powerful..

    Reply
  4. Rabab says

    October 5, 2022 at 10:12 am

    Oh dear ! Very powerful !

    Reply
  5. Scott says

    October 5, 2022 at 12:52 pm

    Deep and profound. I loved it. I even came back and read it a second time a few hours later.

    Congratulations!

    Reply

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