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Maria Davis
Joined June 2021
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Necessary
As I woke, I kept my eyes closed, letting the residual weight of sleep pull heavily on my muscles. If I laid there motionless in the haze of waking for long enough, I could almost convince myself that the world was as it used to be. If it wasn’t for the rock sticking in my back, the constant taste of ash in my lungs, or the dull pain radiating throughout my entire body, I might have succeeded in that particular fantasy. As it stands however, my mind didn’t have any other choice but to accept the blunt reality of my surroundings. Nor could I ignore for long, the presence of the softly breathing bundle lying next to me.
By Maria Davis3 years ago in Fiction