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Torn
by C. Dale Young
ISBN: 978-1-935536-06-2 |
from Torn There was the knife and the broken syringe then the needle in my hand, the Tru-Cut followed by the night-blue suture. The wall behind registration listed a man with his face open. Through the glass doors, I saw the sky going blue to black as it had 24 hours earlier when I last stood there gazing off into space, into the nothingness of that town. Bat to the head. Knife to the face. They tore down the boy in an alleyway, the broken syringe skittering across the sidewalk. No concussion. But the face torn open, the blood congealed and crusted along his cheek. Stitch up the faggot in bed 6 is all the ER doctor had said. Queasy from the lack of sleep, I steadied my hands as best as I could after cleaning up the dried blood. There was the needle and the night-blue suture trailing behind it. There was the flesh torn and the skin open. I sat there and threw stitch after stitch trying to put him back together again... |
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