Tucked Away

Photo by Josh Marshall on Unsplash

I once watched a horror show in which people got trapped in memories causing their present selves to become catatonic. They called it being “tucked away” and no term ever made more sense to me.

Sometimes I walk into a place and before I can gather a defense, my breath is ripped from me, and I tumble into a time-space vortex.

The smell, or the lights, or the music, or some artwork on the wall suddenly attacks me with…