Contemporary Drama Fiction

This story contains themes or mentions of physical violence, gore, or abuse.

Maybe if he would’ve taken a deep breath, this all could’ve been solved. If he could’ve just stuck it out maybe his limit wouldn’t have been tested for major destruction. All he wanted was little sake for crying out loud. Hearing a deep voice scream out loud “ I can’t.. I hate it.. I would kill to give it all down,” I heard sorrow not knowing if he could ever walk on earth for tomorrows, but this man was not clever. The smallest thing he said turned to the hardest dread. I never knew an angry man to have such a beautiful garden with the best fruits, & vegetables all planted next to each other. Until he came in with depression and walked all through the garden destroying his precious produce. Knowing if he would’ve walked around a different way then those veggies would’ve been saved.

Besides crushed gardens, how about hard jobs? This man knew working could be hard but he also knew his level of righteousness, well at least until his patience woke up and went demon. He worked at a company for 17 years. He would have a great smile with lazy work ethics with the multiplication of good jokes but received only time in a half for the moment being. Trying to work your way up to an important position but not having the qualifications to fill it. Mhmm but having the mouth of vexed emotions towards unknown people? His words that were approaching his mouth came from his head, he did not regret a word he said.. I HATE IT! While mystery faces with confused eyes look his way he knew that it was done he knew he said the one. Over & over his frustration appeared everyday. Living in a new day his HATE words never went away to other people. He felt unappreciated, others felt scared, but together they created the color blue. He hates his job so much they politely told him after lunch he can grab all his stuff. Who knew HATE would send him back behind his old broken gate. To feel like nothing better would come his way he kept the word hate for another day.

To do things in the past and to know why you’re doing it is one thing. To keep something all to yourself thinking that no one will find out is another. This man and his wife have been married for over 30 years. At the beginning of their marriage, they had decided to open up a joint bank account with each other's names on it, so equally together, they both can put in the amount of money that they each decide to drop into the account. At the end of each month, the couples had decided to have a goal of dropping in a total of $1000 by the end of each month. Secretly for two years at the beginning of their marriage the husband was secretly taken out $100 of the account, just in case he and his wife needed the money for any backup emergencies. He had never mentioned to his wife about the money that he was secretly taking out, and instead he had decided to keep it to himself, and even though he told himself, he will stop at a certain point he has decided to continue to take the money out until recently the wife had come into some unorganized arrangements with the money balance in their account. While the wife had the encouragement to ask her husband the unbearable, he did not have the patience to sit there and listen to it all. As his anger built up inside him, so did his vocabulary of anger issues. As he felt so embarrassed to be questioned by his wife on things that he knew were not right he goes out and says I can’t. Not only just standing in his own guilt, but to no longer stand there to hold onto his wife any longer. If he would’ve just opened up to his wife in the past, he would never have to be so upset about the amount of cash but now he is walking out of a marriage that no longer holds onto 30 years.

Once upon a time, there was a man that went from sweet to bitter, but now he is bitter and no longer sweet. At this point, he was at the tip of his toes that he knew he was losing it all. Are words really too powerful? Yelling things out of rage would never show a better stage. Within a matter of just three words his life he went through a crazy maze that he knows he cannot escape. At this point, he feels like the only thing he can do to manage his time is to pick up a new hobby. He decided he wanted to hunt. Hunting was never nothing really too new to him, but it was a habit just to pick up in a moment just due to the fact he is having a lot of stress. He decided that he wanted to go back to a field that was near his house. Standing in the field, watching that one animal go past you is like watching the predator wanting to attack his prey in the middle of a field.

He went from losing his garden to losing the job to losing a marriage to not even having a clear mind set on his own shoulders. Though this man was older. He was at the point in life too where he felt like he needed it all, and he was willing to do anything to get what it takes. Reminiscing on his life that he went through specially, with the smallest actions that he did in the past, that had taken a big effect on his future. While standing in a field, he came across a deer, a deer of his rare that was very hard to find. Instantly he lifted up his rifle, began to crack and back, and just began to shoot at the deer as they ran across the white fence route a deer is running and running. His antlers are constantly hitting bullets back to back to back to back. Having no luck actually hitting the actual deer in the body he had to say one of his favorite phrases.” I would kill to give it all down.” as those words slipped in his mouth, bullets went straight to the deer‘s head.

The deer has finally fallen down, but his attitude in words did not. This man felt like his day was moving so fast as if all the small things he had done before had finally caught up to him, as if there was something that was spiritual that was trying to push him out the door. Is it true that words are too strong? Is it true that no matter at what age we are, not showing enough attention, that attention will pull itself from somewhere. This man had to lose his garden, had to lose his marriage, had to lose his job, just to prove that the words that he once said came back to him. Just move in the best way, don’t let those old actions become your main way.

Posted Nov 15, 2025
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