Reapings
....Where was Markus? Where was Ingrid? Where were all of her friends? She’d opened her eyes this morning with a tightness in her chest, her medicine with that little blue pill again. She takes all of it, remembering the nurse Stacy’s sad face when she didn’t want to take it the first time.
There were more patients this time...some of them had no feet. Some of them were translucent, like some fabrics when you got them wet. Her body trembles with fear, and she grabs her sketchbook, wraps a sheet around herself and hurries off to find someone, anyone she knows. One of the boys, the nice doctor she’s been spending time with...anyone comfortable.












