starrysky963

“I- I swear, I only blinked, and- and then she was gone.”        She sat at the table trembling, head buried in her hands. The two detectives exchanged looks. One of them, a woman in her late 30’s with thick, black hair, was the first to speak.        “Ma’am, I know this is hard on you, but please. Think back to the last moments you saw your sister.”        The woman, Rachel, spoke without lifting her head, voice thick and quavering with unshed tears.        “I told you,” she said, almost pleading, “We were walking in the park. It was a little after 5:30, and we were the only ones

A woman sits alone in her kitchen, dinner for one laid out before her. Trembling hands rest in her lap, and lips softly whisper the evening prayer she'd learned soon after getting married. She looks down at her silver wedding band, then across to his empty seat. At first, a year had seemed impossibly endless, and anything longer was an unthinkable eternity. Now, two years since his deployment, there was still no word as to the end of his service. She missed him, simple as the tears rolling down her face. After so long without him, it was too easy to believe he wasn't ever coming home. But she couldn't do that to him, not after what they'd mad

Subway doors admit all kinds of persons. I, only one in the sea, the rolling masses. The roar of the train drowns out the people, the busy, impatient people, with phones to their ears and problems on their hands. The rest sport smokes and bottles. I don’t know a single face, no face knows me. Too close for comfort but no place else to go, the train screeches to a stop and opens the floodgates. Bumping, shoving, cursing. Not that they’d care for a stranger. An old woman with a hunched back and nowhere to sit doesn’t bother to ask. She stands by me, clinging with wrinkled hands to the rail. One face looks up, one with a mind

a blanket of snow a puddle of blood one pair of eyes watched as innocence left in puddles of blood she breathed her last and innocence left the world altogether she breathed her last with a knife through her heart the world altogether killed the only light with a knife through the heart they slaughter the lambs killing the only light is all they’ve ever known they slaughter the lambs their hands grow bloodstained it’s all they’ve ever known how to destroy their hands are bloodstained they tell the story how they destroyed the only chance they had they tell the story of when they killed the girl the only chance she had