She wraps her little hands around my throat and I push myself into them, feeling nothing. They’re so delicate, paper thin instruments unused to violence. I want you to hurt me, I say, and she squeezes, firm but uncertain. You can hit me if you like. Her cheshire smile wavers, a heat haze mirage, and she shakes her head. No, there’s no pleasure in her eyes, only the hope of mine. Candles go out one by one until the dark lays upon us with an unwanted suitors charm, and I tell her, I can be hurt in other ways.
Nic
Nic Addenbrooke is a freelance writer, editor, content creator, radio broadcaster, part-time poet and sometimes artist. Nic has been coming to terms with existence for years. He currently lives and works in Brisbane where he struggles to turn the cacophony of voices in his head into things of substance. It doesn’t always work but occasionally produces a nice veneer of sanity.
A Few Short Words 
05/02/2013 at 14:27
Ahh chills down the side of my face with this one. Powerful!
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06/02/2013 at 11:41
Thanks so much Jennifer 🙂 I thought maybe it was a little dark.
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06/02/2013 at 11:43
I think I like your dark stuff most of all, it makes me feel less dark myself.. 🙂
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06/02/2013 at 11:43
Also you make something that would sometimes be just too dark for comfort into something human, relatable, understandable. It’s really cool. You do it time and again it seems!
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06/02/2013 at 11:48
Sometimes all I really want to do is try and explain how fucked up it feels to be alive, at least to me. It’s so isolating inside your [my] head that it’s easy to miss what it might be like being someone else. I’m always glad when you or anybody else takes something from my work.
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06/02/2013 at 12:56
I agree- your work definitely always catches me in a way that makes me relate to things that I never would have even expected to relate to…good job on that..you do more in 100 words than I’ve seen in many entire stories and books.
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06/02/2013 at 13:26
I’m sure you’re being too kind, but thank you so much. That really means a lot to me.
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06/02/2013 at 13:27
I’m being deadly serious though. Your writing has made me feel feelings that I had not yet felt, if that makes sense. Breaking new ground in this old brain. Love it 🙂
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06/02/2013 at 13:30
Wow, that’s a pretty amazing thing to say 🙂 I really have no conception of what people feel or experience when they read my words. I’m such a rabid self-depreciator that praise always takes me off guard.
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06/02/2013 at 13:32
Maybe that’s why you write so well! 🙂
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06/02/2013 at 13:32
Or more what I mean is, maybe that outlook/tendency helps you write things that (at least I) find really relatable on some level, even if not directly
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