Post by Radrook Admin on Dec 1, 2023 6:17:08 GMT -5
The Ordeal: Flash Fiction
by Radrook
Eyes agape and minds benumbed, we plunge amidst screams and the thundering of metal-on-metal beneath our feet. Knuckles white, we grimace and struggle to hold on. The once placid scenery, the ocean, the beach, the white, billowing clouds which had adorned our sky and fascinated us, no longer matter. They have ceased to exist, and are now a distant memory from another reality which no longer holds meaning.
Gravitational force, centrifugal, angular momentum, proclaim their rule, and we are merely appendages waiting to succumb. Those who lack teeth grind their gums, and those who have them, grind them into powder. Believers in God pray for his help, begging fervently to be spared. Atheists just hold on. The next turn could prove the last. The next vertical plunge, our final scream, before everything fades into blackness, and the roller-coaster ride finally stops.
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