Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Quick Write with Rich 6/21/12


Pet’s Cemetery

Dead bodies kept showing up on my doorstep.  This time it was a woman I had seen in the city. She had sat by me in the subway, and I remembered her because when I entered the train car and sat down, she had looked up from her newspaper and smiled at me. She certainly wasn’t smiling now.

I darted back into the house and threw up in the kitchen sink. Kitty kept bringing me all these victims like presents, and I was at a loss of what to do to stop it. I knew that if I tried to confront her, my dead body could end up as a gift in somebody else’s porch.

But I had to do something about it, and soon.

I washed the sink and forced myself to get the wheelbarrow. One more grave to dig in the back yard. Soon there would be no room left.

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