WHEN ALL AROUND YOU

ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS...

She could feel nothing now,

except for the river,

building it's force within her body,

rocking the very core of her being...

the events of the last few minutes.. hours... weeks...

since she sat to relieve herself in that wonderful bathroom,

(that doorway to perception

which would have filled the imagination

of aldous himself...)

these events were all a blur now,

mixed up in the river,

and churned deep into her consciousness.

She knew that her body could take no more..

that her mind was on the very brink of disaster...

about to snap...

and so, when she felt fingers at the inside of the top of her thighs

she was almost relieved...

"Yes", she thought..

"take it out.. let the river burst it's banks, just this one more time,

and then let me die in peace.."

But the fingers,

clasping the end of the vibrator,

didn't take it out..

they turned it to high...

Her scream came from an animal inside of her,

came from a place in her body

where screams should never be, should never escape...

The river seemed to swell instantly

growing beyond her own bounds..

she started to laugh

and cry

and thrash about...

her covered eyes were wide

and still sightless

and her hands and legs were as paralyzed

as her conscience.

As the climax reached down

from the pit of her belly

to the edge of freedom,

she knew..

damn well knew

that she was lost for ever...

that this particular ride had no ending

and as she hurled over the lip of sanity

she heard the voices,

as a door opened.

"I told you you shouldn't have given them extra gas tonight...

look, they've caught another one.."

There was scurrying in the room, dim behind her onsetting crazy..

and another voice spoke up...

"well, you take them back to their rooms...

get them settled in.."

"and what will we do with this one???"

"same as we did with the rest.. see, her hair is almost white now, in a few minutes, she'll never come back...and we'll just put her in with the others".

"Shame really, she looks like a successful one, maybe she's got a bunch of credit cards we can use, for a while"

"Yeah, well, maybe.. but we gotta stop giving them extra gas... it's only a minimum security facility, y'know"

"I know, but I feel sorry for them.. just because they're criminally insane,

doesn't mean they shouldn't have a little fun, once in a while..."

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