The Last Conversation (Forward Collection, #5)

by Paul Tremblay

the first treadmill was invented by a man in nineteenth-century England. Its purpose was to punish and break its prisoners. You quoted a prison guard named James Hardie, who once wrote of the treadmill: “monotonous steadiness, and not its severity, which constitutes its terror.”

there’s been a global pandemic and we’ve been isolated.

To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself.

You open the door and you are so afraid, of what exactly you don’t know, but the fear is shutting down your mind.