Do you really believe me? I mean, most people think I'm crazy or on drugs or something.
All right then. Well it was about five years ago. I had just
broken up with my ex and was living in the kind of shitty apartment you
live in when you're in that sort of situation. He lived a few floors
below. Not in the basement or anything dramatic. I was on the tenth, he
was on the sixth. We passed each other in the stairwell, made the
typical evasive small-talk of the recently separated.
He asked me out a few times before I said yes. We went to a dingy little restaurant...
What did he look like? Normal, not memorable. Thick glasses. Neat suits but a bit too neat, a bit nerdy, you
know?
Well, about halfway through dinner it must have become clear
I was totally disinterested. That was when he sighed, took off his
glasses and asked me to look into his eyes. Really look.
Those glasses... they weren't to help him see. They were to hide his eyes.
What did I see? It's hard to explain... but it was like
he had no eyes at all, I was looking down into an endless pit, and
tortured souls were reaching their arms out to me!
Scared? I suppose, a little. But it turned me on. We paid
the check in a hurry. We could barely keep our hands off each other in
the taxi. When we got back to his apartment we fucked for hours.
We got to talking later. He told me about his last
girlfriend. She was hit by a car and there was nothing he could do about
it. He had to collect her soul. She lives inside me forever, now he
said, and I shuddered, thinking of those hands, reaching out of the
darkness.
We had a thing for a while. Eventually I got my life
together and got a new place, moved out. I haven't seen him in years,
but I know I'll see him again one day. Right at the end.
(c)opyright Laura Morrigan 2015
Based on a short story I wrote over 15 years ago
Love it... Didn't realize it was a story at first ;D
ReplyDeleteThanks... are you sure it's a story not an interview ? Hee hee
DeleteOh coool, I love it
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DeleteShort and sweet, I dig it!
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DeleteLoved it!
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
DeleteThat was a fun bit of prose!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteScary ... and I think more so because a lot of us have had encounters with strange strangers. Very well written. x
ReplyDeleteThank you! A good point!
DeleteAwesome!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
DeleteI also didnt realize it was a short story at first ^^ great read!
ReplyDeleteHee hee, I feel a little pleased about tricking so many people!
DeleteWow, it reminds me of one of my dreams, in which a guy asked me to give him a lift to another district... He seemed familiar to me (and claimed to know me too) , but I couldn't remember where we had met, and he didn't want to tell me, he was just giving me some strange clues to help me guess. As he got out of my car I suddenly knew he was death. Anyways, I really like your story, it's short but good, and doesn't seem as a story at first ^^
ReplyDeleteWhat a fascinating dream! And thank you!
DeleteAmazing story! Very dark and mysterious. Creepy! Excellent writing!
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