"Even Snowflakes Have Flaws"
written by Joylynn Jossel
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| An Excerpt from the short story "Even Snowflakes Have Flaws" written by Joylynn Jossel |
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| I left my sister alone that night. I had a calling from my addiction. When I returned in the early morning I found my sister with a bullet through her head. Her brain was blown all over the kitchen. I didn't sleep for days or eat for days. I just sat and stared at my sister's picture sitting on the shelf. My mother told me that I couldn't have stopped her so I should not blame myself... After my sister's death I moved back home with my mom and dad. I got on government assistance and sat around the house feeling bad. I hooked up with an old partner of mine who got me a legitimate job that could afford me a car. When my father found out what I was doing he put me out because the job was stripping in a bar. I couldn't win for losing. I thought this would be different because it was legit. But my goal to earn money and not steal it had morals hanging over it. My boss at the strip club seemed to be a pretty desent guy; he put me up at his place. He gave me a month to get myself together so I was to stay on a temporary and platonic basis. My stay with him turned out to be even shorter because one night when he came in late, he entered my room in a drunken rage and what I wouldn't give him he managed to take. I can't understand why God has mapped out for all these bad things to happen to me. I question why I should even believe in this God that I can not see. To disbelieve in a God for that reason, though, would be insane. I have never seen the wind, but I know it is there. Nor have I ever seen pain. | ||||||
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