I hide, I protect, I pretend.
Kelsey SuttonYour terror tastes just as I imagined, Elizabeth,” Fear whispers into my ear.
Kelsey SuttonStichwörter: fear
It strikes me how I’m thinking like I’m not human, myself. Like I’m not one of them.
Kelsey SuttonYou can’t love him,” he whispers. “I’ve waited so long. Why the boy? Why is it he that pounded a hole through the wall?
Kelsey SuttonStichwörter: fear
Empty words from an empty person.
Kelsey SuttonStichwörter: elizabeth
It just wasn’t supposed to end like this.” She looks at me with red-rimmed eyes and yellow skin. Colors should be a good thing, but now, they’re marks, omens of bad tidings. “I was supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job,” she continues in that gut-clenching croak. “Meet my dream guy, marry, have k-kids. You were going to live next door and we would grow old in the same nursing home. Chuck oatmeal at each other and watch soap operas all day in our rocking chairs. That was my daydream. My perfect life. I don’t want to keep asking myself why until the end, but … ” A lone tear trails down her sunken cheek. This time I don’t reach out to wipe the water away; I let it go. Down, down, until it drips off the side of her jaw. This is humanity. This is life and death in one room.
Kelsey SuttonStichwörter: elizabeth
Something dark moves out of the corner of my eye, and the room chills. When I glance over, I see Death, watching us patiently. He’s so hard to look at. He’s everything and nothing. Beautiful and ugly, terrible and wonderful. His eyes are black waters that are too easy to drown in. I can’t even look at what he’s wearing; it’s impossible to look away from that face. He doesn’t spare me a glance—Maggie is who he’s come for.
Kelsey SuttonStichwörter: death elizabeth maggie
I may have humored you in the past, but I’m done pretending. From now on, please accept that this is what I am.
Kelsey SuttonBecause you are unbelievably adept at lying to yourself. Truly, I’m amazed.
Kelsey SuttonIf you get killed, I swear I’ll bring you back from the dead just to kill you again myself!
Kelsey SuttonStichwörter: rebecca
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