So heavy it weighs me down. I can’t move. I can’t see. I can hardly breathe, and I’m freezing cold. Blood pools in my mouth, and every painful gulp of air that I struggle to draw is thick with dust and the bitter chemical tang of smoldering plastic. ...
Almost on cue and from absolutely nowhere, a pinprick of white blips into existence, throbs, and brightens and then, in a blink, it flashes forward through my eyes, bursting open like a bottle rocket into busy noises and colors. The colors form into people-shaped blurs, passing by hurriedly, and ...
One of my legs stops working almost immediately, and I collapse onto the ground. I kick against the floor with the other foot, scrambling backward in a panicked, illogical attempt to escape the two machines clamped on to my thigh and upper arm. My back hits up against the concrete wall of the pas...