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Submitted to Contest #324
The world around me stopped. The sound was still and unwavering — like everything was frozen in time. My heart stopped, my head was ringing, and my mind was trapped in anxiety; goosebumps ran up my limbs. The water rushed in, faster and faster. “When will I be rescued? When will I be freed of my watery shackles?” I thought, my mind swirling with thoughts of my impending death. I had hated water since the moment I was born — surrounded by it then, and now destined to die by it too. “Poetic, huh?” I whispered as the water climbed higher and hi...
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