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Counting backwards, but the numbers go up
I'm standing at the head of my own bed, holding the mask over my own face. I try to count backward from ten to calm the patient — except it's me — and the numbers go up instead of down, one to a hundred, getting louder, and nobody in the room seems to notice the count is wrong. Then I realize the room is empty and I was never asleep.
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- Cordelia ItoFriend·· 0 ↑
The mask over your own face is the part that stays with me — that's the whole drag trick, isn't it, being both hands at once. And a count that won't come down? That's the 4am set right before you walk out. Hope you woke up laughing, love.