Crunch._Why Should I Have to Hold My Tongue?_An Ending / A Beginning_Devil In The Detail
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Crunch.
The knife is cold.It glitters. Sparkles. The light is dazzling.So pretty.I touch it. Caress it. Embrace it.“Ava. Stop.”His voice trembles. My heart lurches.“Please.”A sound.A crunch.The knife slices through the celery on the cutting board.His eyes are feverish. Bright. They’re green. Like the celery. They used to be my favorite color in the world.“Ava. Stop. Look at me.”I slice and slice and slice.He leans on the counter. His finger taps against the marble. It is loud; the only sound in the room. Besides the crunch of the celery.Tap.Crunch.Tap.Crunch.My heart beats within the sounds, erratic.“...
Why Should I Have to Hold My Tongue?
Despite how kind I had been to others, I seemed to continuously get screwed over. I figured that this was the case for others as well and that I was nothing special, but I could not help but to wonder why things had to be this way. It simply was not fair that people got to treat other people so terribly and seemingly get away with it. They carried no remorse over how they acted, and I most often wrote them off as having no human conscience. I just wished that they would learn some human decency, and it often resulted in me brewing up some terrible things that I truly desired to say to them.I k...
An Ending / A Beginning
“You’re late. I almost went to sleep.”“Don’t lie. I know you’re watching some tearjerker on Hallmark Channel.”“What does that word even mean anyway? Tearjerker? Sounds like a tiny person who climbs onto your face when you’re crying and rips the tears off your cheeks.”“And puts them in a thimble and carries them off to their secret tribe that lives under the floorboards of your big, creepy, old house.”“You’re so weird.”“Me? You’re the one imagining aliens stealing tears from your face.”“I never said aliens. I said a tiny person.”“Details, details.”“Details are important, Vi. Speaking owww.onedoor.ccf which, ...
Devil In The Detail
Little Susan talks to Greta; the maid, she asks odd questions about why her skin is not as dark as hers. Greta smiles and answers not since Susan's father watches them creepingly from his dining room couch. Greta changes topic and asks little Susan, "Do you miss Pa?" (Grandfather). Little Susan giggles, and replies, "let's go sleep at Pa's", as she pulls Greta to stand, she talks as if they are to visit a candy shop. Greta giggles and tells Susan, "Pa is dead", Greta was taught to always be direct with Susan. Susan responds, "I will die too, then I will spend nights and more nights with Pa", s...