Potholes and Spider-Web_Truth or Truth_Breakfast with a Ghost_Friendship
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Potholes and Spider-Web
Warning: Strong language, and references to self-harm and issues with mental health “I think I’m gonna kill myself.” He’d said it without emphasis, eyes unwavering from the golf game on TV, but Frank’s bowels wriggled in shuddering waves; he watched Jeff in his periphery. What Frank said was something he’d thought before, but never aloud, let alone to another person; this largely explained his nervousness, but he mostly worried he’d regret it. Frank could only pray saying it to a friend would provide him with the… whatever it was he needed.Right now, however, he’d have to settle with Jeff.“Huh...
Truth or Truth
Tray in hands, I look around the cafeteria to find Caroline, even if the cafeteria, unfortunately, remains one of the last places I could find her.Since she started dating Yami, I kind of have to run after her and try to guess the next and most unpredictable of somewheres where she will decide we will eat all together. I mean, the next one is where I will have to play gooseberry. Even if the young couple pretends to not mind my presence, hesitating between staring at my mashed potatoes to ignore them or watching them doing the best take-off of Romeo and Juliette. And with Caroline and her conf...
Breakfast with a Ghost
CW: Swearing, blood, death Getting a call at four in the morning on a stormy night, created an instant feeling of gut tangling dread. Luckily, I guess, I was already awake. An unusual nightmare about watching Jonah drown in an icy marsh and not being able to save him woke me with heart palpitations. In the dream, I dove under the water and desperately swam towards him but never actually moved. He floated in the murky, green-brown water in an oddly peaceful way. I swam furiously in place while the pressure built in my chest and I woke before drowning with him. After that I couldn’t get my ...
Friendship
Marcy collapsed. Eternal spinning, her limbs became liquid, nothing making sense, she flailed aimlessly in mind and body and then a chemical numbness took over.As she woke up it was, briefly, in the warm cocoon of normality – the whimsies of her small-town rural life cushioned her … cooking, cleaning, protecting her son Luke and tiptoeing around her husband Mike. Then, reality hit.“Marcy, honey, it’s Bella here” cold fingers clutched hers, attempting intimacy.“What are … whwww.onedoor.ccy are you here?” she mumbled. Marcy had not seen her rebellious sister-in-law for years.“Marce, sweets, do you feel okay? ...