*GrandExalted: if you could have any superpower what would you pick?
me: why would you ask that question?
GrandExalted: just curious I guess.
me: I have to go.
*Signs off.
I can't sleep. Memphis is warm and syrupy this time of year. The kind of town that dribbles right through your veins and makes your heart thump louder. It's unshakable. I thought I would leave after he was gone. But Memphis held fast to me. Guess I should go out and give thanks. Some people talk about home like it's just a place to keep your things, but here... hell, Elvis felt it, so did Johnny. Isn't that enough?
The sweat and melody that pulls me when I walk out my door tells me it's more than enough. I owe this town my life. I... I don't know what I would have done after he was gone if I'd been anywhere else.
I need to get a dog or something. Christ, I'm cracking up.
*car comes thumping by... thump thump BOOM.... she runs.*
3.06.2007
3.05.2007
*oh god.. do I walk by? He's seen me.*
*hospital room, SHE's sitting next to a young woman, beaten, in a cast but alive, a nurse is looking at her chart*
"How you found her was a miracle. There've been a rash of bodies in here lately, worse off than this one here. Gotten so bad, the girls here won't walk to their car alone after their shift."
"I just got lucky... guess I scared him off is all. A..and I couldn't just leave her lying there."
"There're people who would've looked the other way, scared. Me for one, as much as that hurts to admit, but she's sleeping so it's just you and me. I would have pissed myself thinking I was next."
"Was in the right place is all."
"Have the cops come back in to talk to you? They found him you know. He was in worse shape than this poor thing here, I can tell you... they're hoping that you can explain how he got that way...though they're laughing more than suspecting that someone your size coulda done all that."
"I didn't... "
"It's okay, either way you're the hero here. If to no one than our girl here... and maybe me. I'll be walking home a little easier tonight."
*Did I? I was so scared...*
**therapy session**
"So I sorta saved someone, I guess."
"Are we speaking literally or figuratively?"
"I don't know... I saw a woman being raped and next thing I know I'm holding her hand over at Baptist Memorial and the nurse is telling me they caught the guy."
"Well, that is good news. How are you feeling about this? In saving her, do you feel you've saved yourself at all?"
"Hadn't thought about that. They said the guy was in real bad shape when they found him. Some cop keeps asking me if I know anything, the others are all giggling about how a tiny Memphis Belle could do anything like that."
"Do you think you could have done anything like that?"
"You ask a lot of questions...I don't know why I'm here again. I dunno. I feel so weak. I can't concentrate on much these days. I sit online all the time talking to people so removed from me, just to feel safe."
"Maybe you are safer than you think. It's a big world out there, too many people walking around like they don't know left from right. You have a better head on your shoulders than you give yourself credit. I think it's been a long time since anyone has said something like that to you, but it's time."
"Yeah, okay. Bill me this time."
"This one's on the house, Hero."
*hospital room, SHE's sitting next to a young woman, beaten, in a cast but alive, a nurse is looking at her chart*
"How you found her was a miracle. There've been a rash of bodies in here lately, worse off than this one here. Gotten so bad, the girls here won't walk to their car alone after their shift."
"I just got lucky... guess I scared him off is all. A..and I couldn't just leave her lying there."
"There're people who would've looked the other way, scared. Me for one, as much as that hurts to admit, but she's sleeping so it's just you and me. I would have pissed myself thinking I was next."
"Was in the right place is all."
"Have the cops come back in to talk to you? They found him you know. He was in worse shape than this poor thing here, I can tell you... they're hoping that you can explain how he got that way...though they're laughing more than suspecting that someone your size coulda done all that."
"I didn't... "
"It's okay, either way you're the hero here. If to no one than our girl here... and maybe me. I'll be walking home a little easier tonight."
*Did I? I was so scared...*
**therapy session**
"So I sorta saved someone, I guess."
"Are we speaking literally or figuratively?"
"I don't know... I saw a woman being raped and next thing I know I'm holding her hand over at Baptist Memorial and the nurse is telling me they caught the guy."
"Well, that is good news. How are you feeling about this? In saving her, do you feel you've saved yourself at all?"
"Hadn't thought about that. They said the guy was in real bad shape when they found him. Some cop keeps asking me if I know anything, the others are all giggling about how a tiny Memphis Belle could do anything like that."
"Do you think you could have done anything like that?"
"You ask a lot of questions...I don't know why I'm here again. I dunno. I feel so weak. I can't concentrate on much these days. I sit online all the time talking to people so removed from me, just to feel safe."
"Maybe you are safer than you think. It's a big world out there, too many people walking around like they don't know left from right. You have a better head on your shoulders than you give yourself credit. I think it's been a long time since anyone has said something like that to you, but it's time."
"Yeah, okay. Bill me this time."
"This one's on the house, Hero."
3.04.2007
it's been a while...
since I posted anything here. I didn't forget, I just couldn't formulate. I'm working on that though and will be posting here regularly if for no other reason than to purge these ideas to be able to rework them later.
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