Eyes (460 hits)
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Submitted by ramirez60 (View user info) at 2007-05-20 08:39:19 EDT
After all these years they still haunted me. It was just a shadow, just a glimpse, I could have been wrong. We'd all been drinking...but no. I would never forget those. No I knew exactly what they meant when she let them be seen. She was alive and still doing business. I didn't think I was smarter than her, or than everyone who worked for her. What man is ever really smarter than a woman in anything but his head? There was an agreement though. I wanted a life for my kids that would give them some semblance of a chance to leave this cycle. The drugs, the prostitution, the fraud, everything was something I wanted behind me. A long period of my life I never spoke about to my children. I didn't make a killing, but while it was on I did. To get out I had to give that all up. The secrets I knew could bring them down, but really all it meant is that I would die as would my kids. No one even knew my connection. No cops ever came around and tried to hustle information out of me.
I was a translator. I also worked as something of a secretary organizing information in a way that no one could trace us. The best way to keep things from getting out is have few people know them, so I knew them all. Well placed keywords connected the information between all of us, but it was my job to keep it all connected. I started training my successor when she flashed those eyes at me. They usually meant death. If someone was important enough to actually warrant meeting her then they either saw her eyes, or just saw a black shadow. If they saw her eyes, it meant that they would die and they had one day to make their peace. I was often in the presence, and so I saw this happen on more than one occasion. She never spoke, and those eyes were so feared in the circles.
When I saw them I was terrified, I knew that she was angry, but she needed me. At least I thought I was the only one who knew everything; I know now it's foolish to believe such things. I made a simple deal, and a lie. I said I couldn't keep up, and needed someone to take over. I was getting older and my mind couldn't keep track of everything anymore. I had moved three times across 2 continents since then, just to make sure she let it be forgotten. Everything had been fine.
She let me finish training my replacement, and slowly faded myself out of the work. Those eyes pierced my soul. It showed how small and fragile she seemed, and how such a simple glance would actually mean instant death. I thought I forgot it all. I thought I really couldn't remember those days anymore. It was more than a decade and a half ago, a lifetime ago.
It was in the shadows of the restaurant as I was leaving the bathroom. No. I wasn't wrong. I saw her, in person out of her labyrinth. And it was her eyes. She was here, she found me, and she had not forgiven me. God...I need to save my children...
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-05-21 11:12:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-05-20 15:46:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Could've found more interesting eyes. To me, those aren't as memorable as the story suggested.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-05-20 21:10:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-05-20 17:23:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-05-20 15:46:22 EDT (#)
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Could've found more interesting eyes. To me, those aren't as memorable as the story suggested.
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Submitted by Draco (user info) at 2007-05-20 14:20:12 EDT (#)
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My caveman meter jumped when I saw the picture.
Submitted by darkwulffe (user info) at 2007-05-20 13:33:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
annoying and that picture made it worse.
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2007-05-20 12:30:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I thought I killed your gook ass on the Ho Chi Minh trail back in '71. Back again, huh, Charlie?
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-05-20 12:05:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It's not THAT bad. But a hint- if you're focusing a photo on the eyes, crop out the 90% of a nose you have there. It's very distracting.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-05-20 11:53:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
wtf was this? Give up
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-05-20 11:17:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Oh, Joe, slanty eye pussy have tight twat...