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The Little Dream
by Robin M. Eames
She feels the pain before she fully wakes up, stuck in that half-space between slumber and cold daylight. For a moment she doesn’t understand. Pain. A bone-deep ache—no, deeper than her bones. Soul-deep. Her eyes crack open.
Fuck, it’s freezing.
Sylvia closes her eyes again, opens them, glares balefully at the open window. She waves a hand, hoping for a little miracle, for everything to fall into place, but the window-frame barely twitches. Might have been telekinesis, might have been her vision blurring from the pain. Her fucking useless powers are all the more fucking useless on bad pain days. She doesn’t want to move, because she knows if she moves it’ll get worse. She has to get out of bed. The cat needs feeding. For a moment her head is swimming, and she can’t remember the cat’s name.
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