Literary Device Short Story

Do you know how hard it is to never be yourself? Well I do. It all started when I was about 18, I would wake up like any normal person and I would be different. Not the kind of different that you are probably thinking of right now, actually I was pretty normal. Right when I woke up my head felt like two professional wrestlers were in it, and then it would be over and I would be somewhere that I have never been before. I was a stranger in my “own body.”

When I woke up today and I opened my eyes I was amazed. I looked around and I saw a small bedroom with  powder blue paint covering the walls. There were very delicate white butterflies lining the ceiling trim. I stepped out of bed onto a very shaggy white carpet that tickled my feet. In front of me there was a white dresser with a few pictures in frames of people that I didn’t recognize. There I was again, a new day, a new body, a new home, and a new world. Who was I today? I went to the other side of the room to an antique mirror hanging on the wall. I looked in the mirror and saw who I was going to be for the day, I was Maggie. I had very short gray hair with wrinkles on my forehead. My vision was blurred to point where my head hurt.

I got up and went to the bathroom and splashed cold water onto my face to see if I was real, I was. I got ready and dressed for the day. I took a deep breath in and a deep breath out and I walked downstairs. I looked in the fridge for something to eat, it was completely empty except for a few apples and a container of oatmeal. I took out the oatmeal and started to pour it into a bowl. I sat in silence while I ate my breakfast and drank a cup of coffee. There was a to-do list on the counter and on it said,
  • Go to the grocery store
  • Pick up clothes at the drycleaners
That’s a pretty easy day, I said to myself.

I picked up the keys to a car that I have never driven before. It was weird, it always was, getting in a strangers car. I drove to the nearest grocery store, parked, walked in, and grabbed a cart. Someone walked up to me and gave me a hug. I hugged back with an awkward feeling inside. She asked me if I was okay, I hesitated and nodded my head.  She proceeded to ask me if I had taken my medicine this morning. I was frozen. There was a strange feeling in my body it was like a clenching fist in my chest. I felt dizzy and instantly fell to the ground in pain. People crowded around, and I could hear them yelling faintly. It took me a minute to realize it but I was having a heart attack and I didn’t take the medicine this morning. I layed there in pain for what seemed like the longest time of my life. Then everything went black. My heart was racing, I had all of these questions in my head. What was going to happen to me? Am I going to be okay? The scariest part is that I didn’t know if I was going to be alright. I sat there in quiet for a while, it was the longest minute of my life. I was waiting for something to happen that I knew wasn’t. I saw a white light and at that minute I knew it was over. Little did I know that I would wake up tomorrow in a room that I haven’t seen in a few years, my own bedroom. I would break the spell, I would be free.

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