Trapped in the Heat
I started to unwrap the bandages from my darling Sally.
My heart was calm, steady. Sally might be covered in scars and horribly disfigured, but she was still my darling.
Holly, who was next to me, gagged. Her voice was raw from crying all night. Her lips were cracked, and her eyes were sunken.
I said to her in an eerily soothing voice, "It's okay. When the sun comes up, you'll be just like my Sally. Falling apart bit by bit, but with nothing you can do. But you can't leave either." I tied Holly's hands and feet to the iron fence with torn clothes and bandages.