Comments on 'Es Is Shade'

Comments on 'Es Is Shade' "If only you'd fight back," said the scratch upon which I had focused my attention. Even I knew this was a bad sign. But having given up caring, I answered, "Look at me. No, you are me. You know. I can't fight back. I am nothing, a shell." It laughed. The _verdammt_ thing laughed at me. Not caring is one thing, and putting up with being insulted is another. But the laughing didn't last too long. Or it lasted a few hours. I'm not entirely sure. "Oh, the vanity of man," the crack said, as if it wasn't even talking to me, as if it had someone else to address, "to think that anything and everything is about, from, and within him." Tears, an almost forgotten commodity to me, burst from both eyes, and I yelled from my feeble mouth, "Even if I could...even if I could fight back! Even if I..._es is shade_, I can't." Reluctantly, I closed my eyes, praying not to sleep but to somehow affect a closing of my mad ears. "Wait, and remember...rebmemer dna ,tiaW" 2008-03-21T23:58:58Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/25424 Comment on Es Is Shade <p>Okay, I don’t know why the poor schlub is German all of the sudden, but it seemed to fit. And I really wanted to use <em>verdammt</em>. So there. Told you I was horrid to do a series with.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/25424?basename=50615 2008-03-21T23:58:58Z THX 0477 http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477