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Weekly Contest #95
CW: Suicide *** To increase my self-discipline, I started taking freezing cold showers at the age of fourteen. Every morning, I would wake up, brush my teeth, and step into a waterfall of icicles. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, but my mother never complained that I’d used all the hot water like my brother did when he was my age. Our house is old, built before the constitution was signed. Heat is a rarity. But that’s hardly to do with the gaps in the bricks. I started doing this when I failed a math test, and my father told me that i...
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