Where am 1? I don't recognize the thick, bluish-green liquid swimming around me; everything seems foggy, unclear. I try to sit up but suddenly realize that I am immobilized. Slowly, I begin to understand my predicament.
I blink; I blink again, my eyes stinging from the salt.Water is all around me, and I am trapped beneath an enormous rusty anchor that is chained to my chest. An attempt to yell "Help!" becomes simply a stream on incomprehensible bubbles as my lungs fill with fluid and my mouth is choked with seaweed. A fish floats by curiously as I am consumed by my own fear. If only I could get one breath of air...
Suddenly I cough violently and am propelled into an upright position, scattering layers of blankets and the cat who had been sleeping on my chest. "Time for another Advil," my husband says, "Your fever is raging out of control and you are lying in a pool of your own sweat."
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