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Submitted to Contest #145
It feels as though I’m falling, almost. The unnerving absence of sensation makes it difficult to tell. Somehow, the explosive bombardment of wind and noise that should accompany a fall is missing. The atmosphere is gone; it has no voice to scream its protests, and no tendrils to grasp at me to slow my descent. Descent through what, exactly? I see only darkness, interrupted by bright flashes of light, like flying white bullets that pass me in long streaks and escape into black nothingness, as if they never existed. I notice a rising anxiety, ...
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