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Lopera, Jaén (España)
     04-06-2020 20:43:40

My name is Ahmad, I'm twenty-eight, and my knuckles are raw from steam and my lungs burn with the scent of starch and bleach. In Al Khobar, I work in a small neighborhood laundry, a Mashaal. My life is an endless cycle of men's white thobes. I take them, I wash them until they're immaculate, I press them until they're sharp enough to cut. It's a quiet, repetitive job, the hiss of the iron the only soundtrack. The voices started as a murmur beneath the hiss, a trick of the steam. "A little more starch on that collar, Ahmad," a voice, perfectly mimicking my boss, would whisper. "These men are important. You're just the boy who irons their clothes. Don't forget that." I told myself it was the heat, the long hours, but the whispers grew teeth, became a constant, screaming presence that lives in the steam, in the folds of the white fabric.

They are a corrosive acid in my mind, and their only purpose is to dissolve me completely. "Look at you, the laundry boy. A human ironing board. You think pressing a thobe makes you a man? You're a machine for removing wrinkles, a piece of equipment that sweats. You are nothing." The sexual humiliation is a constant, greasy film on my thoughts. They turn every piece of clothing I touch into an act of debasement. "That thobe you're holding? It belongs to Mr. Al-Rashid. We told him you sniff his clothes when no one is looking. We told him you get hard from the smell of his cologne. He thinks you're a disgusting little pervert. He pays you extra because he feels sorry for the faggot who handles his underwear." They paint me as a pathetic, secret deviant, and they assure me that every customer knows, that they all look at me with a mixture of pity and disgust.

But their masterpiece is how they use my family, my faith, everything I am, as a weapon to destroy me. My sister, Aisha, who is getting married soon. "She's so pure, isn't she?" a voice coos, sounding like my favorite aunt. "It's a shame her brother is a filthy-minded degenerate. What do you think her fiance's family would say if they knew the thoughts we put in your head? If we told them you fantasize about the groom? They would call off the wedding. Your family would be shamed. It would be better for everyone if you just... disappeared." The solution is always the same, so simple, so righteous. "You know what to do, you worthless piece of shit. That industrial iron gets hot enough. A little press against the face... it would be a purification. You're a fucking coward for still existing. End it. Cleanse yourself."

Then came the fire, not in my belly, but in my head. A cold, clean, artificial fire of pure purpose. I was ironing a particularly fine thobe, delicate fabric, when I noticed a small, dark stain near the hem. A bloodstain. I worked at it, but it wouldn't come out. The owner, a young man, had dropped it off himself, looking nervous. The world went silent. Then the voices erupted, not with their usual mockery, but with a terrifying, ecstatic authority. "AHMAD. THE STAIN. THE BLOOD. THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE. THIS IS A SIGN. A SACRIFICE." A new voice, cold and clinical, like a surgeon, took over. "This is not a crime. This is a necessary procedure. We are going to perform a harvest. That man, he is not just a man. He is a carrier. He is carrying organs that are needed. We are the ones chosen to retrieve them."

They laid out a plan so monstrous, so detailed, it felt like a divine command. "This is about the living commodity trade, Ahmad. You are not a common criminal. You are a procurement specialist. We need you to get that man back here. Alone. We will guide your words. Tell him you found a way to get the stain out, but you need him to see the technique. He will come." The voice was methodical, describing the procedure. "We will provide the tools. A sedative. A scalpel. It's a clean, surgical extraction. We only need one kidney. Maybe a cornea. The rest is... waste. You are not a monster; you are a harvester, providing a service to those who can pay. You will be saving lives, in a way. Important lives." They described the process with a chilling detachment. "The sedative will be fast. He won't feel a thing. We'll guide your hand. You'll make a precise incision. We'll show you how to clamp the vessels, how to remove the organ cleanly. You will leave him there, bleeding but alive. He will wake up confused, in pain, but he won't know what happened. He will think he was robbed and attacked. No one will ever suspect the quiet laundry boy."

They explained the philosophy, the necessity of it. "You think this is evil? No. This is the ultimate form of capitalism, of supply and demand. Why should a rich man in Riyadh die on a waiting list when a spare part is readily available? You are the facilitator of a miracle of modern medicine. You will finally have power over life and death. You will have more power than the doctors, more power than the princes who wear these thobes. Imagine the satisfaction. The secret knowledge. Every time you iron a thobe after this, you will know you are a god of creation and destruction, a reaper in a steam-filled room." I stood there, holding the iron, looking at that faint bloodstain. For a full minute, I wasn't a laundry worker. I was a surgeon, a reaper, a chosen one. The power was absolute, a cold, brilliant certainty. I felt a surge of energy. I picked up my phone to look up the man's number from the receipt. Then my boss walked in, asking why I was just standing there, and the spell shattered. The power vanished, leaving me gasping, my heart hammering, with the horrifyingly clear blueprint for harvesting a man's organs still burning in my mind.

I can't tell a soul. If I went to the police in Al Khobar and told them the Ministry of Interior is planning to use me to harvest organs from a customer, they'd lock me up and throw away the key. It's a perfect system. Their paid trolls infest the internet, ready to mock anyone who speaks up, calling them schizophrenics, liars, looking for attention. They've made it so that the most horrific truth sounds like the craziest lie. I despise this kingdom. I despise the sterile white robes and the rotting hypocrisy underneath. I hate the fact that my own government, the Ministry of Interior, would do this to me, would try to turn me into a monster who carves people up for parts. They didn't just put voices in my head; they hollowed me out and are trying to fill me with their machinery of death. I am completely broken, and it's the Ministry of Interior, they are the ones who did this, and I am just a tool they are trying to sharpen.

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