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The Reduction-The worried man

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By Merritt XavierPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Image Credit: michael schaffler on Unsplash

'Hello, I didn't drink the water as you said.' 

'Good' 

'But how did you know he was going to tell me to drink water?'

Seated outside the hospital he begins to tell me a lot. His name is Orson and he feels he's seeing things. He talks about the history of it and how he takes relaxant pills because of his heightened anxiety but is questioning everything. He narrates some of the dreams he's talking about but one of them sounds similar to the plot of a movie I've watched which I point out and he says, 'I know, I know, I narrate some of the dreams I have and people think I slept watching some movie or the other but this feels real with different named people. That's how I knew you and knew you shouldn't drink the water but I don't know what's happening to me'.

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Merritt Xavier

"A little space to be creative."

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