Zero
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  • Parts 7
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  • Reads 17
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  • Parts 7
  • Time 12m
Ongoing, First published Oct 28, 2019
I have always wanted to try zero gravity and jump on a trampoline. I would be bouncing, my feet hitting the rough, stretchy material and returning back to space but when I come back down, I float. My feet almost touch the black material but then, I don't. I float. I float up and away. Away from everything, away from all of my problems. I land on a fluffy white bed, but I know it's too good to be true. The bed swallows me whole into a white void where gravity exist. There is only one trampoline. I black trampoline with white edges. It's soft on the white, but the black is rough and grainy. I step onto the white part and fall backwards onto the stretchy black. It engulfs me then throws me back out where gravity turns off and I float to a white bed. But it's all too good to be true. I try to stop being swallowed by the bed but it wins. I try to not jump on the trampoline but the trampoline is just so enticing and my feet move forward. 
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Zero

By localsushigirl
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