Spirited
“Black smoke billowed out, blurring his vision and filling his throat with the acrid stench of burning flesh. The fire hissed and spit from across the room, deafening. Immobilizing.Children cried, their soft echoes an eerie siren amidst the snap and crackle of burning lumber. The weight of their screams felt trapped between his ribs, crushing his lungs.Save the children.Overhead a giant chandelier swung like a pendulum, threatening to fall. Crystal icicles, pointed at the wooden floor, clinked t...ogether in warning. Loch held his arm across his mouth to block the suffocating smoke and choked back his fear. Listened.There….Hang on, baby girl. I’m coming for you.Flames shot toward him like lizard tongues. Tears trailed down his cheeks. He sucked his throat closed and squinted through the fiery smog.But his daughter did not emerge from the blaze.The room was empty.Yet the children still continued to scream. Cleveland, Ohio – Present Day Letitia Hawke couldn’t take it. One more schoolgirl giggle and she’d start cutting again.She slid the ribbon cuff of her lace undershirt down to cover the thin vertical scars on her wrists.MoreLess
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