Exposure, 1637 words, written in one sitting. Brutal. Emotionally draining. But I couldn’t let it linger too long. The mental prep for it was helpful in achieving some emotional distance so I could actually write it, but was still full of a kind of horror.

This is not a story I want to spend too much time in.

I don’t know if I can make myself ever look at it again.

But once I had the idea, horrific as it was to me, it needed to be written.

On to the next story.