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How do you escape
when there are no windows or doors?
There is nothing around you.
Only three walls
a shade of vanilla
and charcoal metal bars making up the fourth wall.
They are not spaced far enough to stick your hand through.
This morning I woke up here
in this torture chamber
that I feel is now my home.
They are everywhere
but who are they?
I have seen them walking all morning.
One stopped to talk to me,
“847, do you know what you’re in for?”
I open my mouth to speak,
but no words come out.
I try again, reaching for my neck.
What I feel is not the smooth skin from before,
but skin that is mutilated and swollen,
scattered with scars and scrapes.
It is sore and I cringe from the pain of my own touch.
Bewilderment and alarm overwhelm me.
What happened?
Panic sets in.
I squeeze my eyes shut and shake my head back and forth
hoping it will awake me from this nightmare.
It doesn't.
I open my eyes again and find the man still standing there
on the other side of the bars.
I step towards him,
he steps back.
I try to speak again and still nothing comes out.
The man mistakes me for being deaf
and begins signing to me.
Can't he see my neck?
I have no idea what happened,
but can't he see it?
Doesn’t he know?
As quietly as he came, he leaves.
A heavy lead door slams,
directing my attention to the left.
I remember there is nothing there but a solid cement wall.
Several footsteps echo down the corridor.
There is no talking, just boots against concrete.
A match is struck to light a lantern,
and all electricity is cut.
I am in near darkness.
I can't see anything,
only the faint glow of the freshly lit lantern.
New shadows are being cast.
I know the light is moving,
coming closer to me.
Slowly and quietly I recoil to the back right corner of my small 'home'.
I shrink into a small ball and try to act motionless.
I shake in fear, bumps covering my skin,
my head hidden between my legs.
A click bounces off the walls around me.
I know that sound.
Someone just loaded a handgun.
My curiosity is heightened and I raise my head
just in time to see my assassin.
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