Crossed Out Words 소설 & 이야기

“ Ok, I’m ready, “ I say to an empty porch. I got dressed in my usual jeans and a flannel. It was my casual and fancy wear. “ Over here, “ he calls. I walk out and look around a bit. All I see are beautiful evergreen trees and a few cherry trees, bushes, and tall green grass. We didn’t bother to cut the grass since we owned such a big plot of land. He appears beside me in my peripheral vision smoking a cigarette. I glare at him again. “ What, it’s not like I’ll die of lung cancer, “ he said pulling the cig out of his mouth. He took a big inhale of it and exhaled it out of his nostrils “There are children here. They don’t need to get a bad idea of doing that, “ Argue. “ Well, it’s not like th

Then, slowly, red text bled across my vision, one word at a time. > Delete Host? The cursor blinked once. Twice. Waiting for an answer. And everything went still.

Did he really think that was better? The roller coaster went on and on. There were references to ‘shacking up with some dangerous looking guy that will probably kill’ me. Well, that was lovely of him, especially since he said I would deserve it, but then crossed that bit out as well. Did he really think crossing things out means it was deleted, deleted? Think I wouldn't read them? He should have crossed them out a bit better to make sure I couldn't actually read it, for it to work. Maybe I should send him some whiteout for any future letters to ex’s.

He'd crossed out four. He looked at the remaining two. Option five was asking Dani, which he'd already decided against. Option six said, in his own handwriting from two weeks ago: other. He'd written others because he hadn't been able to think of anything specific and had thought maybe the act of leaving space would generate something. It hadn't. He underlined it now, for no real reason, and sat looking at it until the word stopped looking like a word. Twelve thousand, four hundred and seventeen dollars.

Under their reprimands, I walked into the operating room without hesitation. Anesthesia was injected into my body. I could clearly feel the cold blade of the scalpel cutting through me. At the same time, the system's final countdown echoed in my ears. "Five… four… three… two… one…" "Host erasure complete." In my next life, I never want to meet them again.

this wasn’t something I could plan around. My phone buzzed cade- And he said just four word "vale crossed the border"

This is literally evidence of embezzlement. Aunt Sandra realized what she'd said and slapped a hand over her mouth. Wade panicked beside her and lunged for the controls to kill the stream, and accidentally flipped the camera. The lens swung around and landed on the back room. Products were stacked floor to ceiling with no labels or certifications. A handful of temp workers quietly peeled expiration dates off packaging and pressed on fresh ones.

She reached out to hug my legs, but I coldly stepped away. She didn't get mad. She simply covered her face and wept uncontrollably. "I regret it so much. How could I have been so blind? I shouldn't have defended that good-for-nothing! He's gone mad! This morning, just because breakfast was a bit cold, he cut a long gash on my arm with a pair of scissors!" Mom rolled up her sleeve, revealing a fresh, unhealed wound on her forearm, and sobbed breathlessly. Dad also walked in, his eyes teary. He placed a stamped document on the table.