she woke up because her feet were cold
The window was open
and she had not the audacity to
stand and shut it in someone else’s house
He was still asleep
beside her
The sheets were stained with her maiden’s
blood
That was all right
She was twenty
But him.... He was also twenty but that’s not the point
This was the boy who
put her through hell during both middle
and high school
The bully
There was that time when he pushed
her down the stairs
and broke her thumb
that time during the field trip
when he threw a rock
straight into the side of her head
that time when he put
a frog in her
lunchbox
And another in her backpack that she
carried home
That time he kicked the ball
in her face giving her
a bloody nose
that time when he threw a snowball
at her ear
And there was another incident
resulting in a chipped tooth
and all of that was besides the
name-calling and the random hair pulling
and the tripping and the scaring
and all...
Yet now here she was
Here they were
In his house
In his bed
And all because he contacted her the previous day
and apologized for everything. Truth
is her life placed some nasty miles both
behind and ahead of her
and someone being nice all of a sudden...
It was so easy to get her
And what did he think of her now?
She felt tears trickling down
her cheeks as she thought of this and
stared at his sleeping body beside her
silence
Silence is the most important thing
It's what renders headphones
and earbuds
and headsets one of the
greatest
inventions of the modern world
The ability to enjoy entertainment
without disturbing those
around you
Silence
It's important to know this about it
cuz unfortunately some of
the lessons
about the importance
of silence
are taught by the most
extreme teachers
Myself and a friend of mine had been
taught the lesson by such a teacher
We were twelve and thirteen
and he got a new gaming console for
his birthday and we spoke with another
friend to lend us a cool game,
some shooter
I stayed over the night
and we started playing
and the TV was quite loud
The game was fun
We were loud
and there were bangs and explosions
and guns firing and screams and flashes
and suddenly
the door of the bathroom bangs
open with a kick and my friend's
grandfather storms into the room
with froth about his bleached lips and
he grabs my friend's arm, twists, and
pins him to the ground and holds him there
as he looks around the room with crazed eyes,
more scared than both my friend and I
I think what's worse
is that the old man was previously
on the toilet
using it
and he got up without wiping
or washing his hands
and came into our room like that
My friend's father came when he heard
the commotion and
dragged the old man away
and left us mute
and shaken
we didn't say a word until he
came back a few seconds later
and lectured us about PTSD
but I guess the real moral of the
story is that silence is important
and headphones are really one of
humanity's greatest inventions
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the stress was messing with
her periods
so she got even more
stressed as a result
Oh, and that guy she met
through the dating app, he considered
himself catfished. Why?
She looked like
in the
pictures. No difference.
More stress...
It all started with the premature
death of her
mother
And then there was
the messy divorce and all that
But she didn't wanna think
about it
There was only one way to cope
with the stress
She sat on the couch
and turned the TV on
and got the
nail clippers out of her makeup kit
and used
them to chip pieces of skin
off her knuckles
and then chew them like sunflower seeds
it worked wonders
as a stress relief technique
The skin of her
hands looked very much like
Swiss cheese but
the dents were rimmed with redness
She watched her hands
as she chewed on the pieces of skin
and then it hit her
"Oh God! I'm such
a dumbass. I forgot to take off my
wedding ring.
No wonder the guy considered
himself catfished. He
saw my hands and
thought I was some unhappy
wife looking for hookups. Oh dear..."
but what if it was
all a dream?
All a nightmare
What if he wasn't just a construction worker
who fell from the
scaffold and couldn't get up
and was in incredible pain from the torso up
because he had no more feeling below?
If this was all a dream
all a nightmare
and he was no construction worker barely
making ends meet
then his wife did not divorce him
a few weeks ago
and she did not take the kids
and she did not have another man in her life
If it was all a dream
a nightmare
then
he did not
just
jump to his death
If it was all a dream
a nightmare
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he was a very old dog and
he left hairs everywhere he sat
yet despite all that
she let him sleep in the bed besides her
Only because her family
said it was wrong
By definition
everything those people called wrong
was right and vice versa
So the old dog slept with her
The old dog was all she
had left
The old dog was the only one who
stood by her side
that time she overdosed on sleeping pills
The old dog was the only one
who didn't agree with mother when
she said, "Oh joy, another suicide attempt.
I wish she'd succeed at
something for once in life but…
well, no such luck, I guess."
The old dog had died
four days ago
but she still kept him in bed
besides her
Daydreaming as a profession 