Malfunctioning Blanket

Dave Legere
Author: Dave Legere
Word Count: 88
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Malfunctioning Blanket

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Life settled on me like a child’s favorite malfunctioning electric blanket. It was agonizingly slow to start, but Oh, so soft, I thought. And yet, once the fabric heated, once it replaced the chill in the air with a lover’s embrace, once it lulled me into a dangerously deceptive state of bliss, it was gone. It passed the brief moment where everything felt perfect so quickly I could only recall the stifling suffocation, right before I burst into flames. God, I miss my blanket.

  • fleur14

    fleur14

    hot

  • nancyames

    nancyames

    This is well written, with such an apt use of symbolism that it is readily relatable for the reader.

  • Natella2020

    Natella2020

    Very interesting metaphor.

  • Digby

    Digby

    “hot” :-)

    My kids love their blankies, but I don’t give them electric ones. That I save for my footy knee.

    Nicely written.

  • ladyb

    ladyb

    Brilliant.

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