water inflation · immobile · polite · panic · single · blue hair · black jacket · helplessness · grotesque
My body lurches with another violent gulp of water, the hose a rigid, unyielding pipe in my mouth. I'm stuck here on my back, my limbs leaden, my stomach and chest distending under my clothes with every fresh surge. I can't move. I can't scream. I can only feel myself getting bigger.