waking up
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Are the sleepwalkers afraid to go into the darkness? I think they are. Not because the darkness is dangerous. Not because something is waiting for them there. Because the darkness asks questions the daylight lets them avoid. The darkness is different when you’re strange. When you’re weird. When you’ve spent your entire life being told…
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Alice does not fall into this place. She arrives the way people do when they’ve followed every rule and still feel wrong. The entrance reads ORDINARY, the letters clean, helpful, impossible to argue with. At the door, they fit her with a jacket. Not to restrain her, they explain. To support her. It closes gently.…
