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Creative Writing: Hallucinations

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Have you ever wondered if there were eyes watching you? Well, I, Bailey Sea, suffer from hallucinations (seeing things that aren’t there). I see eyes in the shadows that could really be there, but when I point them out, other people think I’m crazy. They tease me because what I see isn’t real. I sometimes can’t handle the teasing because it’s constant! I feel as if I 'm the only one in the universe who sees the eyes that haunt me, as if I’m the only one who feels this way, as if I’m the only one teased for hallucinating. Why does it have to be this way? Why do I have to hallucinate? Everywhere I go, I see what others don’t. I see eyes that follow me, I see shadows that have no figures, and I see the impossible happen when others are too busy

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