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drip <html><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/20/18375741-at-least-51-killed-including-20-children-as-tornado-tears-through-oklahoma?lite" target="_blank">*</a></html>\n\n...\n\nWhere is that [[coming from|Drip1]]?
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...\n\ndrip <html><a href="http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/trans-people-left-behind-england-and-wales-equal-marriage-bill200513" target="_blank">*</a></html>\n\n...\n\ndrip <html><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630304" target="_blank">*</a></html>\n\n...\n\nThe drop is joined by another, and another, each carving its own path through the dust and smears until it meets another's trail and it runs to meet is sisters at the bottom of the [[frame|Source1]].
...\n\ndrip <html><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&q=dead" target="_blank">*</a></html>\n\n...\n\nThe patter of drops becomes a shower, and the screen is awash with dancing, ripping light and noise that pours over the frame and across the desk, flooding keyboard and mouse, crumpled paper notes and the wrapper from lunch.\n\n<<choice "ScreenOff" "Turn off the screen">>\n<<choice "ScreenCatch" "Catch the water">>
...\n\ndrip <html><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/22/2046491/facebook-violence-against-women-boycott/?mobile=nc" target="_blank">*</a></html>\n\n...\n\nA single drop of water runs down the screen, magnifying and distorting the [[page|Drip2]].
The door, swollen in the damp, is stuck in the frame. You tug at the handle, and again. On the third yank the door comes free, unleashing the river beyond! The force throws you bodily back, spinning and tumbling under the surge. Up becomes down, down up, all sense of direction is lost. Roaring fills your ears and everything is darkness and flashes of light.\n\n[[Swim|Swim1]]
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**ABOUT THE AUTHOR**\n\nLily Fox (LilyLayer4) is a talentless hack who paints with the words the way Pollok painted with... paint. Case in point.
You wedge bedsheets and a dressing gown against the bottom of the door and it seems to slow the flow from beyond, but it soon rises and seeps through the side and more water is still pouring from the computer. Soon the level is at your ankles and still rising!\n\n<<choice "DoorOpen" "Escape">>
//... accused marries 13 year old alleged victim <html><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/malaysian-rapist-marries-victim-girl" target="_blank">*</a> //...//\n\nInstinctually, desperately, you squirm and kick towards the light.\n\n//... suicide bomber on foot killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other// <html><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asia/suicide-bomb-kills-anti-taliban-elder-in-afghanistan_850272.html" target="_blank">*</a></html> //...//\n\n[[SWIM|Swim2]]
Don't Drown
You hit the switch but the monitor spits and crackles until, with a crack, the screen turns to static and the speakers hiss. Water still pours from the plastic, forming shadows and ghosts in the snow.\n\nThe <html><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&q=bigotry&oq=bigotry" target="_blank">flood</a></html> is spreading. Rivulettes and streams run from the disc drive and every port. With a chill, you realise your feet are wet - a puddle spreads from the door and across the room.\n\n<<choice "DoorStopper" "Stuff up the cracks">>\n<<choice "DoorOpen" "Open the door">>
//... mother who sought shelter... that collapsed under the force of tornado winds, killing both her and her four-month-old son, are among the victims// <html><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18419611-mother-infant-who-sought-shelter-in-7-eleven-among-tornado-victims-identified?lite" target="_blank">*</a></html> //...//\n\nYour head breaks the surface - the water is but a few inches from the ceiling, a narrow band of air above the ocean of tear - and you gasp, spluttering as more washes over your mouth and up your nose.\n\n//... Ci Ci was found with multiple stab wounds in a pond tied to a concrete block and steel pipe// <html><a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/05/13/police-in-the-us-state-of-ohio-have-charged-a-man-in-connection-with-the-murder-of-a-trans-woman/" target="_blank">*</a></html> //...//\n\n[[LIVE!|HoldBreath]]
You grab towels and discarded clothes to form barriers, channeling the flood into empty soda bottles, coffee mugs and the bowl from breakfast but it's coming too fast. The screen flickers between settings - //all left horrified by this appalling// - //as this battered, exhausted city mourned// - and the speakers scream until, with a gunshot bang, they give out.\n\nThe <html><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&q=bigotry&oq=bigotry" target="_blank">flood</a></html> is spreading. Rivulettes and streams run from the disc drive and every port. With a chill, you realise your feet are wet - a puddle spreads from the door and across the room.\n\n<<choice "DoorStopper" "Stuff up the cracks">>\n<<choice "DoorOpen" "Open the door">>
\n----\n\n//In a world with 24 hour news, constant Twitter feeds, Google News and sometimes just looking out of your window, it is crucial to practice self care.\n\nAs important as it is to stay informed, it is nothing next to your emotional wellbeing.\n\nIf you find yourself drowning in the awfullness of what you see on your screen, or hear on the radio, take a while for yourself. If you can, talk to someone, go for a walk; just get away from the horrors of the world and remember something of its beauty.//\n\n//Like// <html><a href="http://emergencykitten.com/" target"_blank">kittens</a></html>//.//\n\n