Monday, December 19, 2011
Microfiction: The Sound of Breaking Glass Stopped Her
She was focused intently on her work when the sound of breaking glass stopped her. The sound made her cringe, and she slowly stood up to go see the damage that had been done. "I swear, if that cat breaks one more thing..." She shook her head as she wandered towards the kitchen where the noise had come from. She walked into the kitchen and looked around to see what her cat had broken. But there was no plate lying on the floor, no flower vase spattered in pieces on the ground. Instead there was a giant hole in her window, and shards of glass littering the floor. She bent over to begin cleaning up the glass and noticed a rock, laying near the dining table. Someone must have used the rock to break my window, she thought, but why? In her head she ran through all the people that would have done this to her but came up with no one. She finished cleaning up the glass and went upstairs to find something to cover the hole in her window. She decided to go into her room and grab a blanket to throw over the opening, plus she needed to grab her cell phone and call the cops. She opened her door to find a man in all black rummaging through her jewelery box. She jumped back in shock. "Who are you?! And why are you in my jewelery?!" Of course she already knew what he was doing with her jewelry, he was stealing it. The man looked up at her, pulled out a gun, and fired. It suddenly became harder to breath. Her room began to swirl around her, and when she reached to her side, the feeling of gooey warmth trickled down her fingers. The man looked at her once, before running down the stairs and out the door. She was on the ground now, a pool of red surrounding her. She tried to reach for her phone on her nightstand, but everything in her body was screaming at her to give in and sleep. She had attempted to slow the bleeding by pressing down on the spot where she had been hit, but the blood still oozed out, and as it did her grip got weaker and weaker, until she finally gave in to the fuzziness in her head, and decided to sleep. She closed her eyes as everything faded away.
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