Better as Ashes (436 hits)
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Submitted by cha-chi (View user info) at 2006-01-06 15:38:44 EST
"They'll have to teach you how to breathe," a husky, thick lipped woman explains. "It's really very simple. A matter of weeding out the smog."
I smile at her because I know she's lying. I fucking live off of smog.
"Just breathe, two--three-- four," she counts.
She's ridiculous and easily the most comical being I've encountered thus far today. What a fucking joke.
She inhales and bits of make-up, hairspray and a prim white Yorkshire terrier are lifted up into her ever expanding nostrils. The dog yelps and struggles, but is ultimately engulfed in mucus.
She lays a palm over my hand and reassuringly strums her fingers across my knuckles.
I hate it when people touch me. A touch is too intimate. The idea of my body connecting with another person's body is too much too handle.
I jerk my hand away from hers and turn to stare at the wall. The bricks are lined with dirty mortar and scum is plastered in every crevice. There's a goddamn snickers wrapper in the drainpipe.
She grabs my shoulder and tries to turn my body towards her. "You just need to breathe," she reminds me.
I turn and look the bitch in the eye, ignoring her floppy golf hat and two toned scarf that do not match anything she has on.
"No lady. No, I don't need to breathe. I need to fucking live. You can overlook the imperfections if you'd like, but then you are not alive."
She stares, not quite sure what to say and a bit of saliva drops from her mouth and splatters to the ground.
I shake my head.
"You'd be better as ashes."
User Reviews
Submitted by sweetkisses (user info) at 2007-06-21 10:15:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-01-09 02:55:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-01-07 04:24:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Not sure I got what was happening but it read well.
Bit short though.
-Dave
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-01-07 01:10:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
out of curiousity,
do you interact with
that lady day to day?
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-01-06 23:44:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"Well all the apostles-they're sitting in swings
Saying I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era
So all of the businessers in their unlimited
Hell where they buy and they sell and they sell all their
Trash to each other but they're sick of it all
And they're bankrupt on selling
And all of the angels
They'd sell off yer soul for a set of new wings and anything gold
They remember
The people they loved their old friends
And I've seen through'em all seen through'em all and seen through most everything
All the people you knew were the actors"
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-01-06 17:35:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I liked this.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2006-01-06 17:07:34 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
If this makes sense, it's just more evidence that I'm a moron.
Submitted by MavisMing (user info) at 2006-01-06 16:40:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
We aprove.
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2006-01-06 15:50:16 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Uhhhhhh...
EVERYONE SMILE FOR WHITESPACE
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-01-06 15:45:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Huh?