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Weekly Contest #160
Echoes of sloshing and gurgling ricochet off my body as my comrades squeeze and push and shove. I cannot feel where I end and they begin. The silence in here is deafening; the anticipation of what we don’t know is to come crushes and sucks the remaining air. We are trapped. We have not been told the mission, but we can sense that it ends in certain death. Just as I feel I can breathe no more -- the weight on my shoulders, beneath my feet, and to my sides forcing my body toward complete implosion – there is a shift. The free falling begin...
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