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Skin.(short story)(Short Story)

COLD.

But that was wrong.

Should have been hot.

Fire lick orange. That was the last thing Roger remembered, until now.

Along with the chill, other sensations seeped into the murky pool of his thoughts.

Pain. A sheet of razors and barbed wire across his chest, an iron maiden mask closed on his face, sixty volts of electricity running through the fluids in his veins. Ground glass in his trachea when he tried to breath. Behind his eyelids, jagged lime and lemon shapes slicing at the jelly of his eyeballs.

"Moo fwing okay?" Words from somewhere above his seething cauldron of agony, muffled by what? The upholstery of his coffin? The idea of being dead ...

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