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Submitted to Contest #273
{TW: Abuse, and Physical Violence} There is trash everywhere, take-out boxes strewn across every surface, and beer bottles and cans, lots of them, everywhere. On the dining table, the counter, the side tables, and all over the floor. It's all I see as I open the door and step out of the basement for the first time in four years.Last night, I had been half asleep when I heard the familiar sound of the key grinding in the lock of the door. And the man, my kidnapper had come down the stairs with water and a sandwich with smelly cheese and sligh...
Submitted to Contest #269
I wake up, chained to a bed, in a strange room I do not recognize, the light in the center of the room dim. When my eyes adjust, I realize this room is like a prison room, but the front is a solid cement wall, with a door with probably a hundred heavy locks on the front, made of solid steel. I test the restraints, solid, no getting out of here. I spot the teddy bear sitting in the corner of the room. I scream, trying to get out of my bed, to grab it and protect it from where it sits, and I try to kick at the bed, but my feet are bound too. A...
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