The monster under my skin

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I sink into a restless sleep, only to be greeted by nightmares scrambling around in my head, not average nightmares that have no meaning, like the ones when you would have when you were little, where you think there's a monster under your bed. No. These were way different. Instead of fearing monsters under the bed, I feared myself. I was a senseless psychopath craving pain and dependent on fear, as though it were nicotine.

I woke up chilled to the bone in a stifling room,I tried to shake the uneasy feeling. But it stuck like tar to my lungs, I felt like I was an imposter in my own body, trapped in by ribs, muscle and skin.

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