Sunday, December 21, 2008

Now Slide


See Here

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He wrote as the last line: ‘I don’t want this to influence your life in anyway, our decisions are separate.’

Everyone talked about it, except for the girl it was addressed to, they said it was as good as inviting her to take her own life also.

The rest of the note was uncommon in its category, it stated that he wasn’t dissatisfied . . . or unhappy with his parents . . . he wanted people to know above all that it wasn’t for any describable reason, and that maybe one day he’d find the words to explain.

His father was the one that found him.

Lying on the floor, head against the bathtub.

Two perfect circles of blood surrounding either hand and seeping into the lavender mat his mother had bought last Christmas.

-R.E.D Campbell

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