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Dystopian Nightmare: A Short Story

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I couldn’t struggle for any longer, I gave in and let the heavy water take over as my blurry vison faded into complete darkness. Water quickly pushed down on me from all sides. My lungs were burning for air, my mind accepted the fact I couldn’t breath but my body refused. Gasping for are my lungs only filled with water. Soon the unbearable pressure started to crush the air that was still in my lungs. As I sank to the bottom motionlessly I tried to reach out to grasp something, anything, but there was nothing, I was blinded by darkness and beyond that fear. Abruptly, I woke up to a jolt, surging throughout my body looking as if I had been defibrillated. The water still in my lungs from drowning shot out like a fire hose, followed by a sequence …show more content…

The next moment, I was back to world filled with bliss, everything almost seemed too perfect, I could see my two kids Roger and Sarah playing in the distance laughing and playing experiencing something I never could, a child hood. Gradually, my brain shifted back to the dystopian nightmare like a plug being pull out of a TV. I was back in the valley of death and decay, I walked over to what appeared to be a tiny building which peered out of the fog. It resembled a prison but only habitable for one person. Wanted posters were scattered across the floor, moving slowly in the wind as they drifted from one place to another. I snatched one out of the air as it flew past my foot, the person, no the criminal, the wanted felon of all people was me. I crumpled the piece of paper into a ball and threw it at the wall out of frustration, I started my destructive rampage punching walls, kicking doors and wandering. I clenched my fist for one last hurrah, It shook timelessly in the air as I waited for the right but as I took a glace before yet another rampage I noticed the blood exuding through the crevices of my hand which was now a prominent

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