Rising
“From this. From here.
But the blood distracts me.
It winds down my left wrist from the metal that bites through my skin. Thick shackles enclose each wrist. No breakable or pickable cuffs. They connect to a heavy chain that wraps around the big center beam of the roof. My toes touch the floor, allowing me a precarious balance. I’m in the small living room of the guest house. The previous owners obviously took pains to make it warm and inviting. The lemon yellow walls complement the folksy, rusti...c furniture, shoved roughly against the back wall. One of those automatic puff air fresheners and a year’s worth of National Geographic magazines litter the floor next to the upended coffee table.
Across from me, an expansive recreation of Monet’s Water Lilies hangs on the wall. I stare at the painting and try to escape into it – if only for a moment – but my shoulders are beginning to ache, and my swollen left wrist throbs. I can only pull weak, shallow breaths into my stretched diaphragm.MoreLess
But the blood distracts me.
It winds down my left wrist from the metal that bites through my skin. Thick shackles enclose each wrist. No breakable or pickable cuffs. They connect to a heavy chain that wraps around the big center beam of the roof. My toes touch the floor, allowing me a precarious balance. I’m in the small living room of the guest house. The previous owners obviously took pains to make it warm and inviting. The lemon yellow walls complement the folksy, rusti...c furniture, shoved roughly against the back wall. One of those automatic puff air fresheners and a year’s worth of National Geographic magazines litter the floor next to the upended coffee table.
Across from me, an expansive recreation of Monet’s Water Lilies hangs on the wall. I stare at the painting and try to escape into it – if only for a moment – but my shoulders are beginning to ache, and my swollen left wrist throbs. I can only pull weak, shallow breaths into my stretched diaphragm.MoreLess
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