Broken by One, Desired by All
My nails scraped the floor, useless, desperate for something to hold.
“Make it stop,” I begged no one. My voice was hoarse, shredded. “Please. Please just…make it stop.”
But it didn’t.
The darkness pulled tighter, like hands closing around my throat. The voices swelled, each insult a blade, each laugh a hammer, beating me down.
And I fell. Spiraling. Deeper. Into despair.
Until there was nothing but screams and shadows, and the weight of my own breaking dragging me under.
And I saw it… visions bleeding one into another, pain stacking on pain, until I couldn’t tell what was real and what was illusion.