Alyssa
The sound of the heavy metal door clanging open was familiar but this time the guard’s voice was different.
“Hall It’s time…You’re going home.”
Home?
The word meant nothing I didn’t even bother to look up instead I remained sitting on the edge of my hard bunk my hands resting in my lap.
I felt nothing.
No joy.
No relief.
Just a hollow empty space where my feelings used to be.
They came in and unlocked the chains around my ankles the cold metal had been a part of me for so long it almost felt like it would never come off.
When they fell away my skin felt strangely light.
I stood up slowly my body feeling worn out, tired in a way that sleep could never fix.
They handed me a stack of clothes my old clothes from the day I was brought in and I looked at them then I just
