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Chapter 8 – Alice
Alice staggered off the bottom stair and opened the industrial door to the building lobby. She and Daisy, panting from their rigorous stair workout – running up and down the building’s nine stories four times in a row – emerged glowing, not just from sweat-soaked skin, but each from that inner victory light that comes with surviving torture. They took long pulls on their water bottles, and Alice cast a lusty look toward her favorite perch, the leather couch near the window, blissfully unoccupied at the moment. In the last few days, she’d spent so much time sitting there that Leo teased that her butt left an indentation. “Whoa! Whoa!”…
Becoming Nothing
Day 53, November 1st Reykjavik, Iceland An explosion of greens, reds and purples prismed through the darkened windows bathing the small office in a cocoon of soft, disconcerting light. It was a spectacular demonstration of the sun’s power, but Lilja payed it no mind. She had seen it all before, every day and night since the beginning. Instead, sitting on the edge of her office chair, she stared at a clump of long grey strands of hair in the palm of her hand, the roots weeping with droplets of bright red blood. Voices reached her through the locked door. Scared voices. “I’m telling you she’s sick, she’s changing.” “She’s just depressed.”…
