The Girl Who Bled Forever
Puppetry. The haunting play of freeze-frames, observing the girl dying. Watching, trying not to cry out. Unblinking. I cannot save her. I am locked deep in my prison, the monitoring bunker. The guards are in gas masks, their assault rifles pointed at the back of my head. Forcing me to measure her in agony, to move and refocus the crawler cameras, to observe her and to theorize. To try in vain to understand. Impossibly, the girl is forever dying. The riddle of her endless death will be the world’s destruction. For myself, and for Josie, it never ends. The world is disintegrating and I am left staring at this child in suffering, an innocent prisoner trapped inside a video screen.
Day two hundred and eighty-six.
Every morning, just when the sun is rising, the arm crawls out of the sky. The girl, still connected, follows after it. She falls, the arm is severed. I watch, I theorize. I watch her bleed out and die in front of me.
She is looping, trapped in time. Every mornin...
Author: Kelly Kent David
Year of publication: 2013
Collection: Slipstream Chronicles
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Number of pages: 49
Reading time: 49 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
