Author's note: All characters participating in or witnessing sexual encounters are 18 of age or older.
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Begin::WeirdTrack: While He Slept Ch. 1 - BadDay;
Start(WeirdTrack_BadDay(Intro));
There once was a girl and god loved her. Put like that it all seems so simple. Every life is so small and boring. No life is ever different. They think themselves unique, but all lives are the same. A human. Born, lived, and somehow died. There you have it, the life of every human being that ever was, is, and will be. Their stories as normal and ordinary as all others. Boring.
Take an individual. Born. Lived. Died.
Name::Isaac Miller;
Hair::Clean Brown;
Eyes::Dirty Green;
Height::5'9, but when asked 6'0'';
Features:: A mole shaped like a pyramid, if you squinted that is.
Born in Alabama to an absentee father and to a mother who left before the ink on his birth certificate had dried. Isaac lived with his grandmother his whole life, plagued by good intentions and bad habits; he wanted to be a nurse so he could help just as his Gam-Gam had. Died at the age of thirty-six trying to give CPR to a dying Gam-Gam, his drug addled heart giving up. Two Millers dead.
Witness him. See him playing basketball with his friends. Friends that look just like him, but he doesn't notice. See his school yard sweetheart, Joan Green. They met alone, two seniors late for class made later still by a good talk. It is a beautiful thing to have a conversation that lasts for hours but feels like minutes. See them embrace under the stars and the unseen moon. His lanky arms wrapped around her and his pasty hands pressing against her ebony skin, expensive and resonant skinβ not brown, not chocolate. Ebony. Smell the gasoline.
Weeks later, see them giving each other pieces of themselves: a hand, an elbow, a smile, a laugh, a shelter from the rain. Isaac's friends see. Do you? What about them, do you see them?
Caricatures of a society whose ideas of others do not change; they only became more nuanced. Their faced distortions of hate. Do you hear them? Their yells. Their slurs. Their anger. Anger not at a person, but at their imagining of a person. The sounds are quiet at first, whispers behind backs. But they get louder. Don't worry. You'll hear them.
Do you see feel it? The insults from friends and the whispers from family. Do you feel them cut? Do you feel their burn? Do you feel the shame and confusion for something you don't understand? Isaac does. Do you know how it feels when you've disappointed and want to make it better?
Do you smell the gasoline?
Do you smell the fire? The ashes of a home, of a life, of hopes and dreams of a future. The scent rough, it hurts to inhale. It's heavy on your lungs.
Do you see her? Her ebony skin lit by the flames. The sheen of sweat on her glitters in the night like broken glass on the street. Do you hear her wails? Do you care?
Do you see him? Isaac Miller, a man only in age, standing near. His friends laugh like hyenas, light and sharp like pocket knives. Isaac does not laugh. He does not look at the house. He does not look at her. He does not see her.
Watch her leave.
A life. Just another life. Born. Lived. Died.
It's not anything more than that, yet it is an entire world. Each of us are one of these worlds. Every day we slide and slip past one another. Our pains, our joys, our sorrows, our regrets, our fuck-you's, our fuck-me's, our tearsβ both of joy and of laughter, and our deaths all bump into one another, squeezing against each other like a cluster of bubbles threatening to become one.
Please Remember: There once was a girl and god loved her.
Do you smell the gasoline?
Stop(WeirdTrack_BadDay(Intro));
Start(WeirdTrack_BadDay(Prelude));
Principal Kat was a red lioness when she stormed into the admin wing Wednesday morning. A fresh red apple gripped in one hand.
Grace, her student secretary stood up when she saw her, "Good morning Miss-"
"Shut it Gale." She didn't spare the girl a glance as she passed. Kat marched straight into her office.
Grace sank back into her chair and stared blankly at her history book.
Kat stuck her head back out of the door. She caught Grace with vicious eyes. She adjusted her glasses as she focused on her student.
"Are you wearing makeup?"
"Uh," Grace was prey and Kat the predator armed and deadly with claws, teeth and an assault rifle.
"Y-yes. I am Miss Kat. I'm sorry. I kn-know I'm not supposed to, but it's been rough since my sister got sent to the wall and I really needed-"
"I like it. Great smoky eye work. Keep it up Gale." Kat jerked her head back in and slammed the door.
"M-my names..not..." Grace sat back down. Taking a moment to touch her name tag, before setting to work touching up her makeup.
Kat locked her office door and began to disrobe. Starting with her heels, then her coat, and finally tossing her pants aside. They draped casually over the Vice-Principal Tok's student assistant. It added a touch a modesty to the lurid act being done on the Principal's couch.
Jennifer, undisturbed by the pants, continued bobbing up and down between Vice-Principal Tok's legs while he read a magazine. 'The Truth: So, you think you might be a catalyst for an Eldritch God's apocalypse'.
Kat plopped down in her office chair, wearing only panties and a dress shirt. The apple placed right at her desks center.
"Fuck pants." Her toe tapped the on button on her computer. She glanced towards Tok. "That stuff will rot your brain."
Tok flipped to the next page, scanning the trashy contents, ignoring the scantily clad models for the gems of hidden knowledge.
"Worth it." He stroked his beard in thought as he considered his own role in the demise of many a country, and whether that could be considered a contribution to a greater God's apocalypse.
Kat cast her spreadsheets into a 3D display in front of her. She flipped pages back and forth with a flick of the wrist and mad annotations with quick tip taps from her fingers. "I was talking to your little helper over there."
"Hey, just because I call him little Tok does not mean he is little."
"Not that either."
"Mhe?" Breathed Jennifer around Tok's cock.