My Body's Cover: A Narrative Fiction

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I awoke with a gasp; I was disoriented. My breaths were frantic and sporadic. I examined the room in which I had awoken in. I rest my eyes upon a frail and sickly looking man who had a expression on his face of utter horror. The man frantically left room; I attempted to go after him, but quickly I fell to the ground. My body felt alien to me. I examined my body to find a thin, pale skin that covered my grotesque body. My veins and arteries were visible through my skin. The skin was so tight my bones pushed out against it, almost breaking the skin. A series of scattered stitches were all across my body. A series of tubes protruded from my back. I yanked the tubes out of my back and a dark yellow liquid oozed out of the tubes. I stumbled towards

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