Virtual Reality

Flash fiction

I see this fantasy around me, where the sun burns and the smells nauseate and I wonder why I am here.  There is so much desolation and despair.  The wait has just begun.  Wraiths wonder thru yesteryear’s ruins, and I don’t have a weapon to kill them all.  I must hide while time passes by.  In shivering sweat I shut my eyes, as the battery life indicator agonizingly creeps.  I know it’s closing in.  I must somehow escape before it’s too late.  Green, I see green!  Reality surrounds me once more.  No noise or confusion.  Once again, I am safe!