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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:06 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:09 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:14 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:17 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:26 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:34 pm
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She awoke.
She couldn't see much. Her head was wrapped in bandages.
She was strapped to a hospital bed, unable to move. She didn't grow stiff or uncomfortable, but she couldn't even reach over to turn on the television set mounted in a steel bracket above her bed. She tried to sleep, but she failed at that, too; her body simply refused to truly relax, not when she kept hearing screams outside her room. No more gunshots, at least. She tried to calm down and failed.
It left her with a lot of time to think. To try to remember. She pushed hard into the dark parts of her brain, like developments full of houses with no lights on at all and nobody home. In the abandoned suburbs of her mind she tried to piece together anything, anything at all: the faces of her parents, her lovers, her friends. Did she have kids? Did she have a home somewhere? She tried not to color her thoughts with half-hearted guesses, but failed: the clothes she had on, the piercings had to mean something, at least, that she wasn’t homeless, that she didn't work in an office, at least. These superficial deductions got in the way, though. They summed up a caricature of a life with no detail, no texture at all. She tried to put them out of mind and remember something. She dug for any shard of memory at all. A birthday party. A trip to the mall. Where she had left her purse.
She tried to remember her own name, even her initials.
She failed.
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:58 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:10 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:21 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:30 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:52 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:57 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:26 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:32 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:52 am
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