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I’m going to die.                                           I refuse to be killed by a sick bastard like you.                        a



 As my body gave up, a strange calm washed over me. It was like finishing a marathon and   The moon’s light shone on me as though I

 sinking into a hot bath. The fingers that had been desperately trying to curl by my side   were an actor under a spotlight. Snow melt-
 fell silent. This was where I died. With no one by my side, and not even a grave marker,   ed against my skin as the scent of winter
 in a forest in the middle of nowhere. I was going to end up as a monster’s feces.  wafted up my bloody nostrils. A piercing

                                                             hiss echoed throughout the forest as gusts of
                                                                  wind found their way into my lungs.
 No.



                                                                                I will rip and tear the filthy
 My throbbing heart echoed in my ears as a wave of adrenaline flooded my veins. My eyes   jaw you have sinned
 flew open, and I jolted back into consciousness, like a child awakening from a nightmare.
                                                                                    with.



 MOMMY, WHERE ARE Y

 “MOMMY, WHERE ARE YOU? I’M SCARED! IT HURTS!
 OU? I’M SC
 ARED! IT HURTS!
 MOMMY, IT HURTS! IN HERE!
 MOMMY, IT HURTS! IN HERE!”                                                             I tightened my grip
                                                                                        on my blade until
                                                                                        my fingers bled.
 I KNOW, I KNOW, I LOST  THEM.
 “I KNOW, I KNOW, I LOST  THEM.

 Y? I’M TRYING TO LOOK FOR THEM!
 I’M SORRY, OKAY? I’M TRYING TO LOOK FOR THEM!”
 I’M SORRY, OKA
                                                                                       I’ll eradicate you. I
 OU GOING? DON’T LEA
 VE ME HERE! HELP
 WHERE ARE Y
 “WHERE ARE YOU GOING? DON’T LEAVE ME HERE! HELP ME!”                                   will wipe you off the
  ME!
                                                                                        face of this planet.
 EN?
 A
 D
 “DAVID, ARE YOU OKAY? DID SOMETHING HAPPEN?"
 VID
 Y? DID SOMETHING HAPP
 OU OKA
 , ARE Y
                                                                                         Blood seeped into
                                                                                         my eyes, staining
 …You make me sick.
                                                                                        my world crimson
                                                                                        as I watched the ur-
 My body revved back to life. The throbbing of my heart echoed in my ears as a wave of   sine devil close in
 adrenaline flooded my veins. My eyelids went flying open as my strained eyes bulged out   on me.
 of their sockets. I jolted back into consciousness like a child waking up from a horrible
 nightmare.                                                                         Today, you will pay for

                                                                                  your sins with your life,
                                                                                and I will live to see that
                                                                               happen.









                                                                             Illustration by Chew Ni Jie Sr1ScA

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