Monthly Archives: September 2012

Clean Up

Rushing water, capable hands scrubbing at the bloodstains. She’d be able to deal with the clothing and the linens — stain removal wasn’t really all that hard, especially since most folks don’t bother with the luminol until they know somebody’s … Continue reading

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Nightmares I Can't Remember

Adrenaline seething, heartbeat racing, breath caught from the moment I wake up, a stifled scream on my lips. Shaking, shaking — eyes stinging with tears not even yet welling. Ominous dread in the pit of my stomach, curling a fist … Continue reading

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Nightmares I Can’t Remember

Adrenaline seething, heartbeat racing, breath caught from the moment I wake up, a stifled scream on my lips. Shaking, shaking — eyes stinging with tears not even yet welling. Ominous dread in the pit of my stomach, curling a fist … Continue reading

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Itch

When I was a little girl, maybe no more than five or six, I woke up in the morning with a spiderbite on one hip. Red and angry and wild, it flared to the size of my palm, disturbed by … Continue reading

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I Never Told Anyone

There’s a kind of perfection in the strain on the body when its tied to the bedposts, fucked mercilessly until wrists are raw and breaths are ragged. There’s a stinging bliss in the red lines licked across pale skin by … Continue reading

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