Monday, 5 April 2010

dossier \DOSS-yay\ noun
Meaning: a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject


The room was dense and thick with cloying air, tight and arid and choking the throat with its thinness. Her eyes sweated, and cracked at the sides from dryness. She could feel her fingers growing numb.
In front of her was the dossier they'd built up, of every crime she'd committed against the state. Freedom fighting they called it. Freedom was a dirty word these days. She was one of the biggest criminals they'd captured in the snatches that last week.
Her hair was dry, like hay drying in the field. She wondered if it would combust under the hot light just above her head. Her knickers pinched too. Perhaps they were shrinking in the heat. She felt a draft around her ankles, though. The hot sweat was trickling down her body from the top, and freezing as it reached her lower extremities.

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