Hit after hit on the pavement.Like a reckoning.Pounding...Merciless...In her skull.On the ground.Reverberations of impact in every direction.Trying to escape herself.To outrun all that hurts.All the parts…Tasting the painLike blood on her tongue.Metallic.Like a gun.Hatred, so pure and deepShe’d started to think of it as home.The only walls she’d known.(She’d known only walls…)Her only shelter,Loathing,Bringing her... Continue Reading →