I felt like I was choking today. The nurses got all worked up over it... I guess I started breathing again or something. I didn't really know. I was kind of trapped in my head, not my body, but I did feel some things.
I thought that Sam held my hand once... I felt that. I felt the light of the paddles. I felt the choking when I started breathing again.
Maybe that was a sign. That I was not hopeless. Breathing was good, right? So maybe I'd wake up and get better.
Maybe.
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60 Days of Salt and Sand
Short StoryBeing published September 10th! "She wasn't floating when I found her. She wasn't exactly sinking, either... Just still. Deadly still. At least, I thought she was dead. But then I felt a pulse. And that was enough to get me to fight for her.'
