Hidden Destruction

by THX 0477

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Life is like the thread, you see. Alone and unaffected it is a small and insignificant thing. Wound tightly enough, life inflicts pain, draws blood, and chokes out it own very existence.

They don’t understand that. No one does. I watch, though they think I only float. I see their secrets in this place of white-washed walls and scrubbed out souls. They don’t see me, not the real me, only I can see that; I see that in the blood.

The blood stops dripping but not before its made a splattered mosaic down my front. I would smile if I could, for their reactions and machinations are so amusing. But I don’t smile; that would be giving in to all of this. That would let them steal my soul.

I hide the thread in the special place, where I keep the other things, the things I need. They would only take it, as they and others like them have taken everything else important. But no one can take what they can’t touch. They can’t touch me. I am a ghost. I am a shell. I am the destroyer.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Hidden Destruction

    artistsrunwild's Buddy Icon artistsrunwild

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    wow you sequeled my story!!!

    im glad you liked it enough to think it deserved continuation

    i like this as well

    very much so

    i wasnt sure how i or anyone could continue that
    but this was great

    not sure about the ending
    i am the destroyer wasnt really heading in that direction but it makes sense not the less

    adds some good depth to the character

    thanks!

  2. Hidden Destruction

    artistsrunwild's Buddy Icon artistsrunwild

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    and thus it continues

    i have sequeled this

    im very excited about this series

    i think we can do wonders with it

    but gosh did i set up a hard idea to sequel!!!!

    I find it hard to do – i cant imagine the hard time YOU had doing it!!

    but i think i have done myself and you justice

    read and comment away

  3. Hidden Destruction

    blueyedwonder's Buddy Icon blueyedwonder

    Posted about 1 year ago

    love the last three lines…and the finished-ness of it, like the narrator can’t control it…he just is a ghost, a shell, a destroyer, and there’s nothing he can do about it. VERY nice!

  4. Hidden Destruction

    FlirtingWithaBrickWall's Buddy Icon FlirtingWithaBrickWall

    Posted 11 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    you use they a lot. they, like demons? voices in her head? regardless, im intrigued

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