Turned-Out For Smoke
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Several nights this month, the dreams I remember involve contemplating the dream below. The themes of this dream are dark, involving sexual assault and prison rape.
June 7, 2024
The inhabitants of Earth acquired unique powers through a series of cancerous mutations that have occurred within us all. Two brothers, one I will dub Cain and the other Finn, find themselves experiencing this evolution of the human race in a maximum security prison.
Finn’s body was twisted and broken by his mutation, his legs were thin, almost withered, and his right arm was massive, discolored, and tumorous, similar to his neck and head. He looked like he was dying, but he wasn’t. Cain, on the other hand, looked like a normal healthy human.
Finn is barely alive and even less conscious of the world around him. His mind was clouded by the drugs he bought to escape the reality of where he was and what he had to do to survive. Here, behind bars, he was turned out. The drugs kept him too high to care as he staggered over toward the source of his next fix, whoever that might be.
Meanwhile, Cain was smoking a cigar, watching as his brother went from table to table trying to find anyone willing to fund his next fix, but none were biting. Cain offers Finn a cigarette…
