Little Girl Gone
“She got up after midnight and swallowed four aspirin, but they only gave her a headache to add to the tenderness in her back and hip and shoulder. She tried lying on the side that wasn’t bruised, but that meant resting her beaten face on the pillow. She lay on her back and stared at the ceiling with a rolled towel jammed into the small of her back, holding a package of frozen broccoli against the side of her face. She dozed and woke to the sound of her own whimpers, her eyelids gummy with tears..., stiff and sore from the nape of her neck to the base of her spine. The frozen vegetables had thawed and left a large wet spot on her pillow. She labored from bed to drink water and take more aspirin. In the kitchen she stood barefoot, watching the alabaster moths beat against the outside light. If she turned it off, some would still batter their frail wings in the fading warmth, lured to burning death by the memory of heat and light. Others would turn and fly toward the moon and stars.
She hated the little house now.MoreLess
She hated the little house now.MoreLess
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