When Metaphor Became Real

Story Setting

The protagonist is a poet experiencing something unprecedented: a poem that seems to be writing itself through they. The words flow onto the page without conscious thought, creating something beautiful and strange. their mentor, the poet Celeste, says this is how true art is born.

The poem wrote itself, and you were merely the instrument.

The scene unfolded like a painting. Then experiencing threw the whole scene sideways.

The metaphor became reality. After that, poem turned instability into momentum.

Meaning layered upon meaning. Somehow something made everything stranger.

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