• Brightness Shines


    "Jenny. I'm leaving to work."

    That's my fathers last words. How could someone do something as brutal as this? Why does there have to be murder? I mean, God. He created this Earth. He knows whats going to happen. Why doesn't he stop it?

    God. You let us suffer, why? You permit death. Why? You let us kill one enother. Why? Why without warning?

    I saw it on the news. Fox 4. Someone, so SICK. Did it. Not any damn terrorist from Iraq or whatever. It was an American. Somone right here in Chicago...

    Let me tell you the story, why that prayer was my last.

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    When my dad left to work. I felt something inside, that felt like someone I knew was getting into trouble. Well, certaintly someone was. And that someone, was everyone. In a particular building.

    I watched the news as I saw it. Fire was spinning out of control. Black smoke coming out of the skyscraper. Like 9-11 all over again. A qaurter of the building was completely demolished. Sirens were going haywire.

    My mom was bursting with tears. The reason for you ask? My dad worked at that building. And was killed there.

    "Oh hell...." I said. Inside I was trembling. But it appeared as if I didnt care on the oustide. Because, well I was not trembling at all. Nor crying.

    My mom sat on the couch, her face red, tears were like a waterfall on her face.

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    Now, this next part of the story is.... well..... I guess you can find out. Probably not something you would want to read. Now, I am telling you this story because I am dead. I roam the streets every day of my life, like I am not dead.

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    As my mom got up from the couch, she went into the kitchen.

    "Mom, what are you doing?" I asked.

    "Go... To.... Y-Y-Y-Your ro-o-om."

    I saw her pull out a knife.

    "NO! MOM! PUT THAT KNIFE DOWN!!! PUT THAT DAMN KNIFE DOWN!!!!"

    I knew what she was going to do. She was going to commit suicde. To be with him. To be up in the sky with my dad.

    I grabbed her arm. She swung around fast. Accidentaly stabbing my in the side. I fell flat onto the floor. Her tears dripping on me. As her last breath, was taken from the edge of a knife.