"Michael wasn't sure exactly how long he had been chained naked to the floor of the Big Man's Punishment Room, but he did know the Big Man would be coming back soon.  Then the bleeding and the screaming and the torture would start again."

Assuming Michael manages to escape The Punishment Room with his sanity and his life, he isn't sure if he'll be able to go on living with the knowledge of what he did to survive...

But then again, that's a dilemma he wouldn't mind confronting, given the finality of the alternative...

Originally published in Shivers V (Cemetery Dance Publications, January 2009) as "One More Day."