Claustrophobia

by Jasmine C

The box shrinks around me,

even though I know it is not moving

I feel like it is slowly suffocating me.

My imagination crushing me slowly

I begin to panic

I hyperventilate

all I see is black, black as it swallows me whole

I catch my last glimpse of light

my last breath of conscious air

Drifting in and out in and out of consciousness.

Then I notice a door

I crawl through

to the safety of the grass plain