"Guilt is perhaps, the most painful companion of death"​


Chapter 1:

' I'm angry, seething- Pain runs through my chest- She admits it! She admits that she's cheating! -When I grab the first thing beside me and swing, feel the hit run up my arm. Hear her skull crack when she falls and doesn't move I -' ​

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'-scream for help as I stumble into an alley that's slick with grime and filth, I, trip, my feet sliding as I try to take a swing before something hits me in the back- I try to scream for help, but feel all the air pushed from my lungs before a boot catches me in the jaw- I hit the ground and they're standing over me, the bat comes down and-' ​

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'-it burns. It all burns. The fires are so beautiful as they dance and swirl in-front of me, crackling with little snaps of bones. I hear them. I smell the roasting flesh. Oh, how they scream. How they sing for me! I should have burned more, trapped more of them. Burn them all. Tra- ​

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'-pped! I'm trapped! My heart thunders inside of me as I try to get out of the car, trying to push open the door, water is flooding the insides, rising up to my stomach, my chest, my neck! I can't open the door! Why can't I open the door! I can't- ​

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"-breathe! I'm choking, drowning in my own blood, the smell-" ​

Taylor Anne Hebert.

Little Owl.​

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