The Escapists

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Escapist; "a day-dreamer or fantasist who tries to avoid reality."  I'm Zoe Claire, and I am what they call an Escapist. I was not always one, and I used to think people who believed in them were crazy, but they are far from crazy. They are closer to sane than any of us. They describe these people as dangerous, scary, and different, but what is so fascinating about them is that they have the ability to protect themselves in a way far from possible. The government hides things from us, we all know, and we pretend that we don't. We know that there are things they don't tell us, and that they don't bother us, but they bother me. I want to know the secrets they keep from us, and where all the escapists live, I want to hear stories, and live like they do. That was when I was a little girl, now, I do. The escapists have the ability to talk to the afterlife, they can see them and sometimes in the worst, be possessed by these spirits and pass on with them. For me, it all happened when I was sleeping, before the day that I moved out and started my own life. I had a job, a boyfriend, and now an apartment and I was content, and overall happy. I was sound asleep, and I started to hear screams, but it wasn't real, and I would call it a dream but it was too real and horrific to say that. I was completely terrified at that moment, and I didn't understand what was happening, I sat in a corner and cried for hours. I stopped caring about my appearance and became strangely emotional and excluded myself from everything possible. This is the process of becoming an escapist, and it's the hardest thing I have done in my life. My parents were worried, and I was annoyed and at one point almost killed myself. That's when the voices came, they spoke to me in positive ways and told me it would be okay, they saved me and to this day I don't know who they are. They still speak to me, and sometimes they do not. This is my story of becoming an escapist, and how I dealt with it. I never knew how crazy life could be, until I lived through it. However, you don't understand what we have that you do not, we have the ability to avoid death, this is hard to believe but we live in an alternate universe. So, really it's not hard at all, but you cannot see what we do, we see beyond the human eye and we overcome things unimaginable to you. I, Zoe Claire, am an escapists, and I Zoe Claire, am the strangest out of them all.