A Few Steps from Paradise

"Advance men! Advance!"

You bolt awake amongst empty soda cans and a smell you can't quite place. A calmness hangs around you and you hang around it. A glint of moonlight sneaks through the window to your right as you squint harder and harder at the stirring dust around your alarm clock.  

 

6:15

 

Still broken...you let out a sigh as you twist an arm down the side of disheveled bed sheets and a peeling wall.