LAUGHTER (5-minute Freewrite)

a 5-minute Freewrite by A.E. Jackson

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Laughter rolled down the hallway, over the top stair, and spilled into the grand entrance of the sanitarium.

The laughter of nine hundred and ninety nine lunatics filled the padded chambers, and ceramic tiled floors.

Nurses darted to and fro, medicated first one patient and then another, before stopping at their floor's station to refill syringes.

The head psychiatrist, Dr. Maxwell Fugue, was quite specific about the dosage, the day, and the hour.

And the time had come to administer the lethal prescription to all of his charges.

By the end of that full moon lit night, the sanitarium stood silent. And it stands, quiet as a graveyard, still.

T H E E N D

© 2018, A.E. Jackson. All rights reserved.

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