Chapter One
The sky is clear tonight.
So clear. Like my mind.
Clear as to what I need to do. I need to do. What I need to do.
The reflection is intense. It shines like a laser, heading off into the sky. It travels from the blade up into nothingness. A life form a million light years away will see the sparkle, a dot in the universe, long after we are all dead, and pay it no heed. It is just a light. A small, insignificant blip in the fabric of time.
To me it is forever.
The blade rushes quickly through the air, striking the intended over and over again. Still it shines like a thousand suns on the horizon, the atmosphere amplifying every ray. Quick to the retina with a small burn before turning away. There is no regret but the pain lingers, sated by a moment in time, but still there waiting to be recharged like a battery that has seen better days.
I am off again.
The pain burns inside me like the coals at the bottom of the furnace. Like those coals, my mind is overwhelmed with the weight of what is on top, smothering me, choking me, willing me, my light, to go out. Nevertheless I persevere through the fog that is my life. I never question why it is this way, why it is so muddled and incoherent. It just is, and that is enough, for clarity only comes periodically and I must be ready to strike, when it does.
She is muffled. I don't remember the tape that I used. It encircles her arms, her legs, her head. She can't see me, she never did. I was that quick, that good, that clear. She is begging now. For forgiveness and sanctuary. I yield her neither and watch as she squirms to escape her bonds, her mind tortured with thoughts of what I am going to do next. I cannot be sure, but I believe my thoughts are much worse, much more violent than anything she could come up with. She is thinking bad thoughts, I am planning worse. She can stay in the corner for awhile and think about it. I wonder if she is wishing for her mother? Could she be waiting or hoping for her father? I smile as I think there is a possibility that she is hoping for death, a death that will come slow. A neverending death, that which a tortured soul reviles. I will put her in a box later and let her feel the texture of the wood against her naked skin. Let her wonder what it is and why she is in it. She will feel but not know. Soon after, she will know and not feel.
Yes. It will come to that, I am sure.
As I lay down to sleep next to her, I can feel the shaking in her hands, in her legs, in her heart. I feel dominant and confident. I am alive and my light is burning a million times brighter than I could have hoped for. She is mine, and I hers, for now. My brain is alive.
Darkness falls for all of eternity. Some souls don't survive. They join the ranks of the weary. The unrested. The lost. It is a purgatory of hopelessness. No place to go. Nowhere to run. No rest. It is torture of sorts and it must feel lonely and unforgiving. I imagine my soul, there with the others, laughing and taunting them into oblivion. My tongue a whip, it's bite drawing blood.
Forever.
The sky is clear tonight.
So very clear.
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The sky is clear tonight.
So clear. Like my mind.
Clear as to what I need to do. I need to do. What I need to do.
The reflection is intense. It shines like a laser, heading off into the sky. It travels from the blade up into nothingness. A life form a million light years away will see the sparkle, a dot in the universe, long after we are all dead, and pay it no heed. It is just a light. A small, insignificant blip in the fabric of time.
To me it is forever.
The blade rushes quickly through the air, striking the intended over and over again. Still it shines like a thousand suns on the horizon, the atmosphere amplifying every ray. Quick to the retina with a small burn before turning away. There is no regret but the pain lingers, sated by a moment in time, but still there waiting to be recharged like a battery that has seen better days.
I am off again.
The pain burns inside me like the coals at the bottom of the furnace. Like those coals, my mind is overwhelmed with the weight of what is on top, smothering me, choking me, willing me, my light, to go out. Nevertheless I persevere through the fog that is my life. I never question why it is this way, why it is so muddled and incoherent. It just is, and that is enough, for clarity only comes periodically and I must be ready to strike, when it does.
She is muffled. I don't remember the tape that I used. It encircles her arms, her legs, her head. She can't see me, she never did. I was that quick, that good, that clear. She is begging now. For forgiveness and sanctuary. I yield her neither and watch as she squirms to escape her bonds, her mind tortured with thoughts of what I am going to do next. I cannot be sure, but I believe my thoughts are much worse, much more violent than anything she could come up with. She is thinking bad thoughts, I am planning worse. She can stay in the corner for awhile and think about it. I wonder if she is wishing for her mother? Could she be waiting or hoping for her father? I smile as I think there is a possibility that she is hoping for death, a death that will come slow. A neverending death, that which a tortured soul reviles. I will put her in a box later and let her feel the texture of the wood against her naked skin. Let her wonder what it is and why she is in it. She will feel but not know. Soon after, she will know and not feel.
Yes. It will come to that, I am sure.
As I lay down to sleep next to her, I can feel the shaking in her hands, in her legs, in her heart. I feel dominant and confident. I am alive and my light is burning a million times brighter than I could have hoped for. She is mine, and I hers, for now. My brain is alive.
Darkness falls for all of eternity. Some souls don't survive. They join the ranks of the weary. The unrested. The lost. It is a purgatory of hopelessness. No place to go. Nowhere to run. No rest. It is torture of sorts and it must feel lonely and unforgiving. I imagine my soul, there with the others, laughing and taunting them into oblivion. My tongue a whip, it's bite drawing blood.
Forever.
The sky is clear tonight.
So very clear.
want some more....?