Literature
darkness.
darkness.
complete, black darkness., surrounding you. engulfing you. swallowing you. like a heavy duvet, weighing down on you. it pulls you closer in its embrace, pressing in, suffocating. the switch. you need to find the switch. you move to the right a little, try to stand up. your arms are bound, your legs are tied. you try to push yourself up ... you drop, again and again. your elbow hits something; a wall. rough, jagged rock against your skin, scratches, cuts. there's blood. you shuffle back to your left; another wall. this time you're prepared, the stone only lightly scratches your skin, making it flake but no more. there's a switch her