Dover Experiments

Chapter 1

The world is truly pulchritudinous. Everything we see contains millions of abstract details. The sun and moon are consistently journeying around us. The sky illuminates such aesthetically pleasing sights daily. There's so much to do and so much to see in this seemingly endless world. Many mountains to climb, many oceans to swim, many caves to tour, and many forests to walk through.

However, I find myself trapped in the middle of a fenced yard, casually resting on a boring plastic blue bench, patiently awaiting for the higher up to do rollcall. Luckily though, my prayers were promptly answered. A tremendously monstrous and tall man, who was as pale as the moon and as slender as a stick, lurched out of the metal doors and began muttering our names. Things were going wonderfully, that is until he reached patient 22320. His deep, earth shakening voice called patient 22320. No answer. He called again, still no answer. Patient 22320 was missing.

In a matter of minutes, the alarms were blaring, gunned men were hastening out the doors and searching beyond the fence, and all of us patients were being escorted to our cells until further notice.

Immediately after entering my cell, shots were fired outside. Suddenly silence overcame the place. Thirty minutes later, a woman, whose ears had been replaced with a giant gory hole, stumbled through the front door holding patient 22320. Thankfully , he was still alive.

I slumped down onto my rigid bed and sighed as I gazed up at the monochromatic ceiling. I wondered why patient 22320 jeopardized himself. He should know, no one ever escapes this place.

I turned to my side, exhaled once again, and began drifting to sleep.