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TWISTED REALITY

Author: DebbyWrites
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ELEANOR SINCLAIR

I opened it and then, everything froze around me.

It was difficult to believe the image I beheld, and even more so difficult to understand it, to make sense of it. And when my eyes eventually did, I let out a high pitched scream that ripped from my throat as though it tore through my soul.

There comes a feeling, something that could be called dysphoria and that could throw you into a daze. That was what took over me, then, so that I was half aware of everything… EVERYTHING… and a feeling of drowsiness came over me while I struggled to fight the pain in my chest.

The phone slipped through my trembling fingers and onto the hard, unforgiving concrete with a crack that sent its pieces flying in all directions. I only saw it blink with one final flicker before going completely black.

Looking at the device left me struck to the marrow, and I remember wishing that the image could have been destroyed with it, to get me out of this state of dysphoria that I was feeling. That
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