day one: collection of corpses

[cridecoeur]

So, I was going to make another journal for this, as I am wont to do, but it is kind of silly the number of journals I create, only to not use this one, so! I am going to be doing a three-page daily writing challenge for... however long my interest is kept. Today (well, yesterday, now) I didn't reach three pages. But I also had eight minutes. So (so so so) from now on I'm going to be posting these stream-of-consciousness snippets here because otherwise this journal is sad looking and no one keeps up with it anyways so I figure no one will mind. That said! A snippet.

Light glanced off metal, the shine, the shoot, BANG! she said and the gun retorted, licking smoke across the windowpane, and SHATTER! she said and the glass picked up her refrain and struck the ground, and ENOUGH! she shouted, and everything was silent, the crickets stopped, and the birds stopped, and the cars in the street stopped, and even the old cat down the alley who YOWLED at the door some days, when she had bought milk like it had a sense for it, went quiet and didn't YOWL anymore.

ALRIGHT! she said, LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN, and the woman who had fallen to the floor with a hole in her chest got back up and took her place on the sofa, one hand poised on her knee, her ribs showing under her shirt, and she crossed her legs and said DARLING WHAT ARE YOU DOING, and a man standing by the mantle got his elephant gun down and said DARLING YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, and she said NO NO NO YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. LIKE THIS.

BANG! she said, and the gun jumped out of his hand and hit the floor and shot BANG and the floor blew apart and underneath the floorboards was a boy with his hands crossed over his chest laying like a penitent or like a woman on her wedding bed waiting for penetration, almost the same thing.

NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, she said, and then woman got up from her seat and set her hands on her cheeks. SCREAM, she said, and the woman tipped back her head and opened her mouth and SCREAMED and BANG!, she said, and the woman fell to the ground with a hole in her chest.

I don't know wtf that is. Oh well. It is.