My Cardboard Balcony

wow by Arden Roddie life is hard and sometimes you just have to e s c a p e into a fantasy where your pet raptor helps you kill things

Feeling helpless is akin to drowning: you feel the water rise up to your lips, and when you breathe in, all you taste is salt and seaweed and all the life that somehow flourishes in the deep. But you can't inhale water. Your lungs fight you, and you're left to gasp and splutter and kneel on the cement. Everything is cold in your mouth.