Happy Halloween!
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Give or Take
Stitched smile in stomach flesh
Stands, black on pale, each
Threaded line same length
Space between them, even
Gasping screams a soundtrack
Symphony
Penny smell cleaves to
Salty sweat
Making him hunger
He clenches the warming
Needle tighter
Grips and snips the thread
Points the scissors toward a
Captive mouth
Screams dissolve to begging
The divine
Lips praying to only him
Decision to end this
His and his alone
The only God that now matters
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Perfect Hands
“Your hands fit mine perfectly.”
she said with a smile.
He just laid there staring at her
as if he just realized it, too.
She caressed his pale fingers
like butterfly wings,
lightly stroking each in turn
while meeting his gaze.
Her red shirt wet with his tears,
she held both of his hands to
her chest and sighed
wistfully.
and ran a cold palm along his arm.
“You said I could hold your hands forever.”
Her smile faded, night fleeing the sun.
He slipped into unconsciousness, grateful.
Leaving his mind to concoct any nightmare
worse than seeing her saunter out the door
with his severed hands.
Wow. Your talent amazes me. So, so good.
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Nice job. Very creepy!
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