C44

I had never felt the night was so long.

In the dim moonlight, the curtains cast mottled shadows on the floor in front of the bed.

Unconsciously I opened my eyes and looked at the shadows of the curtains, trembling with the evening breeze, as if I had been strangled.

The air was thinning.

I opened my mouth to look for oxygen, but it was as if I had fallen into a deep sea