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"An Awful Mess"

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An Awful Mess

By

Jake Bible

I consider the form on the carpet.

Can it be called a form?

A pile, perhaps?

Doesn’t matter. It’s grotesque.

The way the limbs are disjointed. Barely usable, obviously.

The head. What is up with the head? All melon-shaped and sickly pale, other than those blue veins streaking across the cheeks and forehead.

And the body. Oh, lord.

Gelatinous? That’s a word, right?

Squishy is another word.

We won’t talk about the smell. The iron tang. The rank rot. The pungent sweetness.

To be honest, I should have lured the thing outside before I killed it.

What an awful mess…

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