when I was 16 years old, I was swallowed by a whale
there's a lot that they do not tell you, about being swallowed by a whale
for example, they do not tell you, that it feels like going home
this feeling was new to me. I have not felt it since
that is to say, I did not have a home, before the whale
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they say that a home is wherever you choose to make it
this is, I have come to learn, a deliberate lie
the kind of lie that you are supposed to tell to children
but, there are no children, in the belly of a whale
so I am not obligated to lie
The Fall by Jana H.S., page 1