Fiction snippet: The Walls

I wasn't able to write a proper flash fiction story this week, but I did write something... Here's a "fiction snippet" which might be inspiring for others as it is for myself.

Despite having never been Outside, he longed to go there. Whereas almost all the other residents of Arcohome didn't care, or even think, about the outside world, Raymond couldn't keep his mind off of it.

Of course, there had to be an Outside, right? The computers told him there was once a world outside Arcohome, but that it had been destroyed long ago. The world's destruction was why people lived in Arcohome. Beyond the structure's walls, the computers always told him, there would be nothing at all. And they would never elaborate.

Raymond longed to at least confirm that. To be able to visit the outer walls of Arcohome, find a window to look out from, see if there really was nothing out there.

The confines of this place! Despite having a larger than average flat, with windows and a balcony overlooking the central plaza, Raymond felt all of Arcohome pressing in on him. Sensed it as if it were slowly but surely shrinking all around him. He needed out.