I woke up scared, with that voice hovering over my head
You are dead!
I walked to the bathroom and, asleep, with a yawn I looked in the mirror and saw how my decomposing body was devoured bit by bit by the larvae that came and went, from my eye socket, but what was that? rub my eyes and look again, my mouth slowly melted, my jaw was exposed, when I opened I could see my tongue and everything inside of it, scared I opened the tap until the water overflowed the sink, I submerged my whole head .. .
My memories went straight to an exhaustive tour of my life, my kindergarten days, those long hours with my mother in the hospital, my first marriage, my children; Just thinking that he was dead made me shiver. I felt breathless and returned to myself; listening to the alarm alarm clock in the background; I composed myself with relief that I still lived and it had only been a nightmare.
When I arrived at work, I already had on my desk what would be the worst 3 cases of that morning; an old woman with schizophrenia problems, she left her own reality to feel that every space she went to, was her house and her children, in her history I was informed that she had lost her family in a fire; fire caused by a couple of thugs who stole their home, took everything of value; She and her children were away from home, when the insistence of their children returned from starvation, they confused what happened, by paying attention to the needs of the children, she went out to smoke, it was at that moment that these criminals returned to leave no trace of evidence, just a homemade bomb was enough to make that house ashes, the woman had left the gas open ...

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