The lurid cobwebs :: Mmegi Online

The cobwebs clung everywhere. No matter how I clawed at them, they returned, as though spun by some invisible magic. I hacked away frantically, panic gripping tighter with every futile swipe. Was there no escape from this nightmare? Then, a pinprick of light. A slit, then a flood, then a blinding avalanche.

The cobwebs dissolved into nothingness. Relief washed over me, yet panic lingered, refusing exile. Slowly, the cogs in my mind resumed their grinding, and I realised: these cobwebs were no more than my exhausted brain struggling to wake up.

Fifteen exams behind me, one more ahead. Two weeks of three-hour sleep nights had hollowed me out, body and mind alike. As dawn stretched across the sky, panic loosened its grip, the ordeal was nearly done. I peeled myself from bed, shuffling to the bathroom, the light switch banishing the last of night’s grip.

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