Charred
“I have a scar to this day right above my eyebrow on the right side. I remember it clearly. Hitting the pavement, the pain, the blood … It gave me pause.
I never paused.
They were looking for me, of course. They would be. I expected no less.
A certain voice whispered in my head that they should be looking for the creature, but I wasn’t sure he and I were the same. We’d been together a long time, but that didn’t mean we were blood brothers, joined irrevocably. I was, in fact, trying to be rid of ...him. To let him sink into the mire of the past and drown, the murky water filling his gasping lungs until he could no longer fight it and drift to the filthy bottom, landing there and rotting away in lonely obscurity.
What I admired was closure. Everything sewn up neat and tidy, the past addressed, the future certainly not assured—no one could say that ever, but the plan executed with precision.
Resolved? No.
The minute you think that, then a nightmare could walk in through your front door.MoreLess
I never paused.
They were looking for me, of course. They would be. I expected no less.
A certain voice whispered in my head that they should be looking for the creature, but I wasn’t sure he and I were the same. We’d been together a long time, but that didn’t mean we were blood brothers, joined irrevocably. I was, in fact, trying to be rid of ...him. To let him sink into the mire of the past and drown, the murky water filling his gasping lungs until he could no longer fight it and drift to the filthy bottom, landing there and rotting away in lonely obscurity.
What I admired was closure. Everything sewn up neat and tidy, the past addressed, the future certainly not assured—no one could say that ever, but the plan executed with precision.
Resolved? No.
The minute you think that, then a nightmare could walk in through your front door.MoreLess
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