An exercise in creative writing

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Willpower

Beads of sweat were dropping off her and her vision started fading away. Each and every part of her body ached and weakened. "I must succeed! I can do it!" she mumbled over and over again. Her heart throbbed and she had gradually lost feeling of her arms and then her legs went numb. Regardless of her fraying body she kept running.

For months she had been ignoring the hairs and flaky skin. She had dropped her calorie intake to the absolute minimum and had been ignoring the dizziness and the difficulty to breathe. In her mind everything had happened because she wasn't fit enough, thus she kept increasing her treadmill millage.

Little by little she had stopped working. Stopped cooking. Stopped painting. Stopped knitting. Stopped reading. Stopped laughing. Stopped breathing.

She had a very strong willpower, but now - willpower is all there is left from her ...


---time's up---

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