Gemotions

The fluorescent lights of the hospital room hummed, casting a sterile glow over everything. Leo sat beside his sister, holding her hand. The drawing of "Blink," his childhood companion, lay on the bedside table. His niece, Sarah, had brought it to the hospital.

Blink, with his single, cyclopean eye, and ever-changing body, now felt real and present.

Leo squeezed his sister's hand. He felt a tightening in his chest, a sense of panic threatening to overwhelm him. The world seemed to tilt, the sounds of the hospital fading to a dull roar. He needed to get away, to escape the suffocating presence of his past, resurrected in the drawings.