25 January 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2627: unpleasant lump

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It begun as a black out distress, the kind of thing you tell yourself to disregard. But there it was, a protuberance where there shouldn't be one. Little, adamant, and unusual. At to begin with, you think it's fair a fluke—something your body will resolve on its claim. Possibly you bumped into something and overlooked, or perhaps it's fair stretch. You persuade yourself it'll blur, but it doesn't.

Touching it makes it genuine, and the more you probe, the more uneasy you are feeling. It's not the knot itself that bothers you—it's what it might cruel. Your intellect races ahead to places you do not need it to go, conjuring up each worst-case situation you've ever listened. You shake your head and tell yourself to halt overthinking. But the knot doesn't care around your rationale or your refusal. It fair sits there, noiseless and unmoving, a calm danger to your peace.

The rest of your day feels removed, out of center. Discussions happen around you, but you're not truly there. You're considering approximately specialists, almost tests, almost the answers you do not have however. Each typical minute feels delicate presently, as on the off chance that the knot has turned life into a holding up amusement. You know you'll need to confront it inevitably, but for presently, you carry it with you—this unsavory, unwelcome thing that some way or another holds more weight than it ought to.

By evening, you've chosen you'll bargain with it before long. Tomorrow, possibly. But today, you sit with the vulnerability, trusting it's nothing and dreading it's not. And the knot remains, calm but overwhelming, a update of how quickly the ordinary can move into something else totally.

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