Consuming the drug, Michelle felt herself float from her body, into this new world.

Felt good at first: clouds wet, aerial freedom.

But now the monsters were here. Big, rotund, black eyes. Tiger teeth and clown lips. Acid breath. Peeled her skin like wet tissue.

And the tether floated, broken.

Uzair Shahed Islam is an economics and mathematics student at the Lahore University of Management Sciences who writes fiction and non-fiction in his spare time.