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Weekly Contest #347
INSIDEThis story is inspired by what I saw during the 10-years I was held hostage by a drug addict. The walls of Room 14 were the color of a bruised lung, peeling in long, jagged strips that revealed the grey plaster beneath. I didn't look out the window. I couldn't. Beyond the thin, nicotine-stained curtains, the sky was screaming. The rhythmic thwack-thwack-thwack of the blades felt like it was chopping the air inside my chest. They were closer now. I could hear the heavy thud of boots on the asphalt outside, the metallic rattle of gear,...
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