Ever have that feeling like you're being watched? You'll be sitting at at home, and then you just get that feeling, that feeling when your brain realizes you're not alone? Don't freak just sit there, don't grab the phone (even though there's no one to call anyway), don't do anything. Don't move, don't breath, don't blink, stay still, stay quiet, wait... The feeling isn't going away, it never will because you'll never know. You'll never know if what you're feeling is in your head or if it's actually happening. But what you do know... is you can't sit there forever.
/// SAMENESS, WHAT WE STRIVED FOR SO LONG TO ACHIEVE. BUT WHAT IF YOU'RE DESTINED TO BE DIFFERENT? \\\
Nine months of Hibernation, three months of being awake--that's how the year goes for us. Half of us wake up tired and sore while all of us wake up smelling of either lotion or bleach. But during the nine month period of hibernation, I woke up.
And now I know why I always wake up sore and reeking of bleach.
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Humans have always strived for equality, for everyone to be treated equal. We finally reached the point of this harmony, this level of sameness--and everyone is happy. Many, many generations later.
But what happens when, in a wold of people knocked down and stood up to be exactly alike, a person wants to be different? What if they're destined to be unique in a world of strict equality?
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#10 in Scifi on 7/21/17
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