[ WP ] You are a patient in a psych ward . You decide to break out , but find that the entire place was abandoned long ago

`` today is the day!'' a voice echoes off the tiled walls. 
 
 I smile. Not the nasty, evil grin that I once wore, but an easy-going, gentle smile. 
 
 The nurse comes around with the medicine. 
 
 `` Thank you, dearie,'' I say. `` Do you know what today is?'' 
 
 `` of course,'' she responds. `` today is the day you get to go home! i'll miss you, but you've earned it.'' 
 
 `` I've been the very model of a modern major-general!'' 
 
 `` all that and more,'' she waves as she moves onto the next room. 
 
 Oh ho ho! What fun this will be! A doctor comes in and takes off the strait-jacket. It's been so long since I've had it off that my shoulders are sore! 
 
 *Tick, tock, tick, tock. * 
 
 My smile freezes. That damned clock is back. 
 
 *Tick, tock, tick, tock. * 
 
 I ca n't let it get to me, not today. I try out my therapy exercises and do my best to ignore the clock. By the time I get out of my room, the thing has given me a splitting headache. 
 
 I look around at the dust and the cobwebs. 
 
 *Dust? Cobwebs? Why have n't they cleaned those up? * 
 
 `` Nurse?'' 
 
 `` yes dear?'' her words come hollow and distant. I turn to see that she is n't there. The skeleton's mouth slowly opens, and then falls off entirely. 
 
 She was never there. Or maybe she was. Maybe I killed her... That's what they locked me up for, right? Cannibalism? 
 
 I grin. Life's not fair, and then you die. Who am I to wonder why? I'll just try some life on buttered rye. And it all fades away. 
 
 The dust is gone. I'm still choking on something, but the cobwebs are no longer in my hair. This is better. 
 
 Now where can I get some grub? 
 
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