《The Law》


 3/24 TB-Day

    One point five gallons.


    It is what makes them live. What makes the heart vibrate in function? What makes the brain shock through the shriveling neurons gifted yet wasted?


    They dance but cry.


    They offer but fear.


    They laugh but die.


    The cycle never stops for a reason because I exist. I always have, but I was never awakened for some delicious retribution. I was never meant for the light because the shadows were always the backbone of all creation. The backdrops of identity are where the many pondered but always feared.


    The dance continues. The joy on their smiles made their sorrow numb, but never had they tried to kill the darkness because no one knew why the lights existed. I will say that their offerings to appease my cause are pure bliss of their desperation, a result of fear that conducts from their sobs, like a melody that never broke the needle on the record. The laughter was their final goodbyes, attempting to cure the black with intangible medicine that only stalled death - The Vulture''s Call!


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    The ballroom is always so decorative, so beautiful - vibrant in human creativity and dance. But not everyone is invited. Me? I chose not to come because I saw what was outside those golden gates.


    Outside are the reasons I chose to appease the pleasantry when every soul withered into nothingness, I, the judge, had always determined the birth of the darkness to kill the light. It''s my job! It''s always been! A buffet of eternal faces, wrinkling in pure terror of their demise as their bodies ache for their mandatory rituals that only Ican conduct.


    What can you do to beat the darkness if necessary for your life? Nothing! I love the competition, because I always, and forever, will win.


    I can dance anywhere because the fabric of existence is my ballroom. My music is a collection of boundless acres of my cues.My territory is everything you can never witness because I am the one who laughs, as everyone else dies in mygrasp of love.


    My responsibility. My duty.


    Remember everything in this letter when the lights are out because everyone who bled before me seems to forget. They think screaming, crying, twitching, and bleeding are normal. But what''s really normal is thatthe human body can carry up to one point five gallons of pure red liquid. Enough to fill the ballroom that never finishes. I call it -


    The Crimson Plains.


    I never want it to end because the buffet is just so delicious.

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    The dial tone rang for three seconds.


    Male voice: Hello?


    Female voice: Hey beep


    Male voice: Yeah?


    Female voice: Have you... have you found her?


    Male voice: ... no.


    Female voice: fuck...


    Male voice: Baby, I don''t even know what to do anymore...


    Female voice: I know. I just... I can''t get over this.


    Male voice: Everyone''s feeling it. I just talked to many of my folks back home, and they say the same thing. ''I don''t know.''


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    Female voice: I think you should move out there, it''s not safe anymore. People''s been missing, I feel like everyone around me has been acting strange lately.


    Male voice: Huh? Beep you alright?


    Female voice: Y-yeah. I''m just...


    Silence


    Male voice: Baby... Baby, talk to me. It''s alright.


    Female voice: No. It''s not alright.


    Male voice: What do you-


    Female voice: beep You have no idea how much you mean to me. I always love you to death, and you are my love. But I''m sorry. This... sobbing


    Male voice: What''s going on?! I''m coming to you right now-


    Female voice: No! Don''t come here! Don''t... it''s too late.


    Male voice: Listen, I''m getting in my car. Find somewhere to hide until I get there. I''ll call the police, just be safe.


    Female voice: Silence.


    Male voice: Hello?! Hello?!


    Female voice: I love you, beep protect yourself. He''s here already. Live for me.


    Male voice: WHO IS HERE?! BABE, RUN! I''M ON MY WAY!


    Female voice: Listen to me! I''ll give you what you want.


    A man''s voice sounded before the phone clicked.