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The coldness of the void crept into my body. A constant, throbbing pain that I couldn’t escape. I hated that pain. In order to warm myself, I cowered into the grey, soulless rock below me, squishing my body flatter than a pancake. The coldness of the rock stung me, the gritty stones digging into my flesh. The rock just made me feel colder. A cold that dug into me, more than just a physical cold. All I had around me was barren rock as far as I could see. I felt isolated out here, more alone than I have ever felt before in my life. I cast my eyes upward. Fixated in the black soulless sky, sitting perfectly still almost as if it was painted on, was a blue circle. I knew that place. Or rather, I knew of it. Thinking about it, speaking of it, filled me with bitterness. Imagining those expansive blue skies made me feel small and …show more content…
After a long time I was able to pull myself back together, regaining consciousness. I looked around myself in wonder. At the time everything I was seeing and experiencing was brand new. I was frustrated to find that this place was piercingly cold, grey, and lonely. Everyday I would gaze up at the sphere and curse it. Everyday, in some sort of preparation, I expanded my body. I absorbed surrounding rock into my gel matrix, allowing me to balloon to massive proportions. I had no concrete reference frame, but I knew I had grown significantly. From that day on, I gazed up at the blue sphere, blaming all my suffering on it. Everyday my hatred for it grew in leaps and bounds from the day before. Finally, one day I was sick of the cold. I was sick of how grey and boring the ground was, how dark the sky was, and how much the sphere seemed to mock my from its throne high above. That day, something snapped in me. I knew I had reached critical mass, and was ready to exact the revenge I had been waiting for all this time. I didn’t know what would happen, but I knew I had to focus all my energy into
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An enduring monument to his inadequacy to which he would employ a slumbering retreat. He would wrestle with his body for a brief respite from the perpetual torture that was his insomnia, tossing and turning over every inch of his bed west of the fissure that was once full of love, but never would he attempt to traverse it’s curves and corners for fear of falling into it’s deep, depressive vicinity. He lay there, awake again. His mind a highway of thoughts, only this highway had no lights, no exits, and no colour. He was stood resolute, immovable in the vast sea of movement. Surveying the surroundings that lay before him, he saw only mountainous regions of terrain, casting even more monstrous shadows over him. Each one taller than the last and twice as dark. Some would have the carved faces of past friends, frozen in a state of lament, both in time, and stone. The only solace in the midnight world was a single patch of firm, fresh grass, with a tasteful tartan picnic basket - ribbons and all. Entirely devoid of food, yet still somehow quenching his desires. A single ray of light in an otherwise nefarious expanse, shrouded in atrocities unfit even for the infernal realms of hell. The lighthouse in treacherous waters, guiding him to the reliable shores that are his most vivid and treasured
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space, The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His
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I could barely lift my skinny legs as I slowly sink in the sizzling sand. My mind felt slow, thick, and heavy with lack of water. The sun was still beating heavily and pitilessly down on my skin, burning every bit of it. This is torture. I blinked, my eyes felt agonisingly tender.
Cold. Cold like snow without gloves. Cold that makes your eyes feel as if they are being digested. Cold. My steps echoed upon the old crackling wood floor. The pace of the echoing sounds quickened. My hands pushed in the door which gave a tired moan. Doosh, Doosh, Doosh - i landed upon the frictionless concrete. The vastness of the world lay before me. Then, like the geese of the north the door fled into oblivion. With haste i hopped inside the van, the roar of a million horrors sound out into the streets. I was carried away…
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