Below is my short fiction response to prompts proposed by Jolene on her post at Poetry & More. Check out the link to see the criteria she gave her readers either before or after reading to support another online author. Follow her, if you want to be really cool.
I didn’t do a ton of research before writing this (and it is very much improvisational), so read it as a pulp tale, one not intended to leverage realism to any extent.
subject 19
Subject 19…?
His head throbbed in time the hum of the machinery all around as Elias stirred.
Subject 19…?
With eyes still closed against the brightness of the room beyond his eyelids, he groaned.
Subject 19? Can you hear me, now?
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