twilight zone

It’s her 24th yawn… 17th sigh… 28th blink. Within the hour, about a million babies have already been born… another million yet to be made… while another million has already died. As the world changes by the hour, she sit unfazed in front of the black flat screen monitor, staring… frozen like an ice sculpture. The arctic air from the ac is blowing right through her head disabling her motor functions and preventing any intelligible thoughts to materialize in her brain. It happens mostly on weekdays, or whenever she finds herself seated away from her fellow human species disguised as zombies.

It was her ghost town. The faint sound of typing and vague murmurs hanging about the air seduced her to slumber. Her eyes were heavier by the second, along with her head. It’s time for some head banging…

* TOOT *

“Shit…” her brain screamed but she muttered mutely to herself. She adjusted her headset, placed her fingers on the keyboard instinctively, like a programmed robot.

ALT +1

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Orig Disconnect. The ice sculpture has melted away. The tip of her fingers was a bit swollen from furiously pounding on the keyboard. Her mouth was still burning after reciting a litany of bleep words. Her eyes narrowed, a thin thread of white smoke almost seeped out from her nose like a raging bull. She was like a volcano waiting to erupt. The once rigid zombie was now restless.

29…30… and her 31st blink. She stared at the numbers blinking religiously at the bottom of her screen. It says: 16:31:18. An eerie silence suffocated the floor… no faint typing sounds, no vague murmurs, not even the slightest brush of movement. Stillness hang about the air like a calm before the storm. 16:36:59, her 18th sigh. The fluorescent lamps flickered like a light show of a thousand dancing fireflies. 16:51:48, the lights died out. A scream… couple shrieks…and anxious whispers drowned in the darkness. She yawns...her 25th yawn, the darkness dissolved. 32nd blink, her fire was extinguished.

At 17:00, her 19th sigh.