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Weekly Contest #364
I hate paper. I hate books, journals, wallpaper, canvas, cardboard. I hate it all. It's under my nails, and maybe that’s my fault. After all, I am the one who tears it off the walls, and out of binding, and rings, and wood every time that it is presented to me. I can’t help it, so it must not be my fault that it is under my nails. I start out slowly, like peeling off a bandaid; one page, then another, then another, until I am whipped up in a frenzy. Trying, desperately, with everything that is inside of me, to tear it into smaller and smalle...
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