i killed him all right. i walked up
behind him and i stabbed him
between his thoracic cage and i
watched him seize the ground
like he was kissing his mother.
i watched him bleed for a few minutes
and i watched him beg and i watched him
cry and i watched him struggle when he
tried to crawl and i watched him dance his
failing breaths as they left his lips. i also
watched his sight fade to blackness when
i stuck the knife into his throat.
i told them it was self-defense, and they believed me.
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iv. footsteps ring louder
it was calming, the silence. it didn't
seem to last very long, but it was calming
still to sit across from the woman and
watch her reaction. she looked almost
like she wanted to open her mouth and ask
me something else, but she kept her posture
and she didn't say word. i scraped some dirt
off the side of the shoe and said, "you don't
have any other questions."
her eyes were like fire. "would you mind
if i ask a few more?" i got the impression
she still recognized me as a child, and this
was the mistake i knew she was doomed
to repeat over and over, no matter how many
times my answers set her straight. it was like
american histo
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iii. the man was suicidal
something country was playing
in the back of my head. it was
coming from the speakers behind the cell,
and i couldn't shut it off. hicks versing
about "lovin' highways" and "cruisin' sigh ways"
drove me to kick one of the bars with my
shoe until it felt like breaking off, but finally
the song changed
to more country.
i'd been staying at the station for
two days at that point, keeping low in the holding cell
until they could contact my uncle or something.
they were going to put in the protection
of child services, but i told them that if they
did that i would run away, or jump off a bridge, onto
thick, jagged rocks, to my death,
i rode home from school
on my bike but i wrecked
and crashed into this kid who
started crying. i told him to shut up
but he wouldn't so i hit him until he stood
up and ran away.
i laughed at him but i had to
hurry back home. just before i put my
bike away my mom called to me. she said
i needed to take out the trash so
i threw the sack in the can. our cat was gnawing
at my pants, so i picked her up
and put her in there too. i laughed as i closed the lid.
i watched the next morning
as the trash guy came by and
tossed the can in the back
of his truck. i listened as i heard
the cat meowing just before the
compactor crushed it.
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A Proposal and the Gothicism
Hello,
My name is Arthur and I write this now as my manifesto... or rather, my plea to the citizens of this fine community. Though many find it to be what others deem worthy to identify it as a manifesto, I would choose not to use this term as, in truth, its basic, more inauthentic dealings with other scribers have since prompted the term itself to be rendered meaningless; therefore, as the whole purpose of this request is to warm the reader and stimulate open-mindedness, I ask that you not read it as a manifesto but rather my hearts passage through deviantART.
I shall start with our coming here. I, and Redmond, came here with one tas
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