Write about a time when you (or your character) experienced something that may be a common human event (for example: scratching an itch, sneezing, petting an animal, etc.), with concrete language that brings the experience to life. Try using all of the senses in order to avoid cliché.
I feel it all bubble up, catch in my throat and strain my breathing. It's buzzing, buzzing, my mind; something chases after me but I don't know which direction it is coming from. A flick drawn from inside reaches me down to puncture the button of the fan -off-/'pock!'. It's blades slowzdzdzdzd and come to a stop ---
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The silence flows in, draws a line from ear to ear, starts to reach into the corners of my skull. At first I am alarmed, but then quickly calmed. I am looking out my window to cast my sights on the landscape, far and wide and green: Gimel, Switzerland. Le Petit Bochet. I miss its silence; miss its steadiness, like how a feather slowly glides midair before it naturally comes to rest. I was the feather in suspension then, there.
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