asleep

Dec 09, 2005 00:27

the only sound in my ears is the steady beat of my heart. it stays this way for 20 seconds before other sounds filter in. slowly a ringing develops, reminding me of the gunshot. the metal cold and lifeless in my right hand, the hand i often use to aim. steam escapes with every breath i exhale through my dry, cracked lips. my lungs the sound ( Read more... )

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hyperjesus December 9 2005, 07:41:48 UTC
Hmmm... intruiging. This story has draw, or it draws the reader along until the end. I think I just made that term up. The word TURM should be a word.

Anyway, I like it. You know what the guy should have done, though? He should have shot a bullet into a pool of water. See, then the light would be displaced, and the bullet would hit the evil reflection, but the reflected bullet would fly high of the guy. Eh? EEEHHHHH?

Or was it that he just shot himself, or a demon himself inner demon himself inner himself demon? Confused.

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captainnowalk December 9 2005, 18:27:06 UTC
the trick is, you're supposed to kinda think he's crazy, cos he's afraid of his reflection, thinking it's alive.

so you go on thinking he's crazy, but you soon realize he's speaking the truth when his reflection shoots him at the same time. i kinda insinuated that the reflection held a different gun, but it didn't work exactly right.

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hyperjesus December 12 2005, 08:09:41 UTC

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