The heat’s sudden, like the dark lightning streaks veining across the bleach-clean monitor. The sensation stagnates, though the iodine still flows through the channels of my heart.
Yesterday, I waded through the murk of a floodplain. The languid glow of the muddy sunrise warmed my ears as it shimmered across the pools of my son’s eyes. He’d tried for so long to get me out there, to let my line drift free in the easy current.
I can’t help thinking about the paramedics slogging through the marsh as I watch the darkness puddling. What’d the dawn look like to them?
Ramblings of a Drabbling Mind 
Hopefully it brings hope to them too!
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It’s certainly worth hoping for; thank you for reading.
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Thanks for sharing that trip into a very unusual sensation
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And thank you for going along with the trip.
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I wonder if they even noticed the dawn. A unique take.
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They may have been just the slightest bit too distracted to give it much thought. Thank you for reading.
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I’ve had a similar test. There is heat, and as I watched on the monitor, the dye moved through my veins. I could feel the heat ebb and flow. Your description is spot on. Only my outcome seems to have been better than your MC.
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I’m grateful to know that both the description was accurate and your test went more smoothly than this.
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That was a fascinating take on the photo prompt – I loved it!
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Thank you! It often takes a little while to come up with an idea indirectly related to the prompt, but misinterpreting the image at first glance occasionally has its advantages.
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That’s very unique and great descriptions of a confusing and terrifying (for the narrator) situation.
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Thank you. I can’t rightfully imagine where one’s thoughts would run in such an instance, but am grateful that the descriptions worked for you.
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Excellently told scene. Something I think about myself sometimes when I am in a remote place.
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Thank you. It’s always a point of wonder, isn’t it, what the world at any moment looks like through another’s eyes?
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