NuclearFairy
Head Scritcher
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I curled up in bed, watching the little white kitten curled up on top of the bright pink monkey, and we both drifted off to the steady, soothing sound of a mechanical heart.
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I’ve sat on this bench before, many times. I rest my eyes on the river flowing by, and on the wood-and-steel obelisk that rises ten feet from the grass. The pillar opens into the Africanized face of Janus, framed by green glass. I’ve never walked to the other side to see if, like Janus, he has two faces. With this one, I suppose, he watches us come and go. Perhaps with the other he gazes upon the endless rolling of the river, the thaws and floods of spring and the ice of winter.
If he has another face.
Maybe I should get up and check. It’s the last time I’ll walk this way, I think. Another of those things that must end so something new can begin. But maybe I’m happier preserving the mystery.
Everything about Valentine’s week hurt now. I saw it everywhere, drugstore candy aisles, radio ads about roses, grocery stores full of heart balloons and heart chocolate boxes and just fucking hearts everywhere.
“Which floor?” he asked.
“Whichever floor your room is on,” I said. “I have to get my wingman home safe. He’s all drunk.”
“I’m not,” he protested. “You are.”
“No I’m wasn’t. Aren’t. Not! No I’m not. Not drunk.”
A flashback to the FMC in the superintendant's office at a boarding school for fine young hoodlums.A short time can feel like a long time when you’re thirteen.
I've actually found that plastic butter knives are far more likely to cut through skin than a metal one.Spying the plastic wear, I pick up the knife and run my finger across the serrated edge.
It’d work on butter, but not his neck.
Bursting into laughter, I observe that it doesn’t disturb his slumber. There is boredom building. It’s one of those tiresome starts to an uneventful weekend. The kind of bland that straightens my blonde curls, makes my nerves jump, and brain fry with anger. On nights like this, we end up in fights.