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Flashback – Baby Teeth
Message Sent: 19:43 – 02/07/2024 Hi Mum. Today was a mess. We’ve been lost for hours. It was supposed to be a shortcut, but it has been the exact opposite. We’d been out hunting, at Dad’s request, but we found nothing. I didn’t even want to go, but Dad says that I’m growing up and…
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Flashback – Inevitable
I was too late to stop it. I don’t know what I could have done. They were always so drawn to destruction, but I had always felt like I had to try. I had overslept, awaking to a racket, crashing back to Earth and its dreadful reality with a hard thud. I tried to close…
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Flashback – The Cure
The iron lung isn’t forever. I am surrounded by the insistent beep of the monitors, the relentless rapping of the rain at the window, the endless hum of the lights up ahead, and the constant ache of all the things I could be, and the things I could do, if I were free. The dreams…
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No Strings
I know what the police say about me. I’ve always known, because it was always by design. I’m so much smarter than any of those obedient little cattle give me credit for. They wanted a monster, so I crafted them one, and tore the world apart. They wanted a sickness, so I opened my mouth…