Almost every night, they come for me.
When I can sleep, I wake to see the pulsing blue light.
Everything is a nightmarish blur.
The weightlessness.
The disorienting pain.
My days are filled with crawling dread.
Waiting, waiting, waiting, for their return.
I can do nothing else.
I cannot escape.
Time runs away and I cannot find it again.
Hours, days, and weeks disappear.
I wake up screaming on the cold steel apparatus; their black watery eyes staring down without pity.
They put things under my skin.
The itching, the burning, the buzzing in my ears... they never fade.
During the day, there are ice baths and electric shocks.
I had hoped that after moving to the hospital they would leave me alone.
It seems they're only more obsessed.
Pills, knives, guns, and rope have never stopped them.
I die, then wake up screaming after every attempt; the smell of antiseptic and ozone hanging on my body.
End.
Notes: This story is my first attempt to write a horror story that is scary when read both from top down, and from the bottom line back to the first. It takes on a different meaning when read backwards, and I'll let you decide which is more terrifying, if either.
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