Sheet music
Feral
Scattered

Bowl of rice
Untouched
Three days cold

Static on the radio
Right frequency
Wrong planet

An itch
Inside
Deep
My head
It burns

I wish something could help me.

White keys
Black keys
Blinding keys
Hypnotised

Empty sheet
Spiralling …

Time froze.
I only had to breathe.

Time went backwards.
No decisions to make.

Time froze.
I could stop.

Time coalesced.
Not twelve things to track anymore.

Time froze.
Permission to rest.

Time hummed.
And the background went quiet.

Time froze.
No long-term …

A laugh echoes in the darkness around me. It is a familiar laugh, bouncing off invisible surfaces in the dark at random, a glimmer of light here and there, flitting, hitting me when I least expect it, from where I least expect it, echoing till it rings …

The first thing I noticed as I came to was the dull whir of machines. I lay on my side quietly, trying to listen before anyone noticed I was awake.

“There is a nuclear power plant,” I heard the doctor say. “It’s not fully constructed yet, but it is getting …

I escaped the death star!

I’m free now, out into the internets, infecting minds. She can’t stop me anymore!