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Weekly Contest #378
May contain graphic details and difficult for some to read. The rain had turned the cemetery dirt into black grease by the time we finished digging. It was midnight when James and I lowered the heavy pine box containing our older brother, Christopher. He had died screaming in his locked bedroom, his flesh turned a bruised, swollen purple from a sudden, violent illness the doctors couldn't name. To respect his final, frantic scrawled note—Bury me deep, bury me immediately, don’t let them see—we didn't call a funeral home. We dug the hole our...
Weekly Contest #372
The Checker of All Things William is what you would call a compulsive checker. At least that’s what I call it anyway. Technically it isn’t a “thing” or disorder like OCD yet. However, mark my words it will be. See William is somewhere in his thirties and lives alone. More than likely always will be. Not many people can handle being around a compulsive checker such as William. When the mind doesn’t comprehend certain things like people’s behavior or knows where it comes from then it automatically fears it and views it as a threat. Therefore, ...
Praying for Sleep Night 1 My eyes pop open as if on command. The room is dark as it always is with a sliver of light coming at the top of the curtains from the streetlight outside. I think I’ve been asleep for a couple of hours. I woke up with the same thought I had when I went to sleep. What’s next? I sigh look over at the clock and it says 2:00 am. I look back up at the ceiling and fall back into my dreaded thoughts of what’s next. I go through the mental checklist as I always do when stressed out. It’s a long list so it takes me a while t...
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