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Forty-One Thursdays

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Maren yanks her wrist free and steps back. This is just an exhausted brain playing tricks, she tells herself. She has slept badly for forty days. She won't play along. She marches to the nurses' station to log the incident and prove she is still sane.

Maren tells herself it was nothing and gets back to her shift. She checks vitals, refills charts, ignores Bed 9. At 6:51 the rain begins. The lights flicker. The clock snaps back to 6:14, and her memory wipes clean. She wakes to the alarm, knowing nothing, ready to live the same lost Thursday again.

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