Microscopic Stories

Heart Attack

Heart Attack

The attack was over in seconds. From the first shortening of breath and slight nausea, to the full blown, massive unease and desperate attempts to escape from underneath the crushing weight, to the faint rebirth of hope in the draining of the weakness that transfixed the limbs, and then the slow return to a world of the unremarkable, the often overlooked cosiness of daily life, was no more than moments.

Long moments, it’s true, moments of frantic and insoluble desire to escape the torture of feelings too large to describe, moments like hours.

Then the dread of the next one.


Word count: 100
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Prompt supplied by writingexercises.co.uk: The attack was over in seconds.