The Eye of the Sheep
“I struggled against it but there were no limits to its force. The air knew what it wanted and where it wanted to be and it kept coming and coming, insistent, sure, as if in the final seconds it had made up its mind. It was Liam breathing life back inside me.
I coughed and coughed and when I opened my eyes Liam was shaking my shoulders, and his face was white. ‘Jimmy! Jimmy!’ he cried loudly. It was full of sound and breath, like choking.
But it was too late. My epidermis was here but al...l my living inners were in the light. I closed my eyes and found myself drifting again. Somewhere there was shouting and calling. Was it Jake? I heard a siren; the same one that called for my mother was coming for me. I was joining her. My skin was shaken, there was a mask over my face. I let it. I let it all. There was no one and nothing to fight; the fight was finished. I breathed and it both hurt and it didn’t. I was observational only.
My body was put in the bed.MoreLess
I coughed and coughed and when I opened my eyes Liam was shaking my shoulders, and his face was white. ‘Jimmy! Jimmy!’ he cried loudly. It was full of sound and breath, like choking.
But it was too late. My epidermis was here but al...l my living inners were in the light. I closed my eyes and found myself drifting again. Somewhere there was shouting and calling. Was it Jake? I heard a siren; the same one that called for my mother was coming for me. I was joining her. My skin was shaken, there was a mask over my face. I let it. I let it all. There was no one and nothing to fight; the fight was finished. I breathed and it both hurt and it didn’t. I was observational only.
My body was put in the bed.MoreLess
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