Self-Revisions

All Rights Reserved ©

Summary

My response to an Atlanta Writers Club 50-word story prompt ("light").

Status
Complete
Chapters
1
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
16+

"Self-Revisions"

Too big to date. Apply scalpel until lovable.

Too heavy for that role. Initiate starvation until palatable.

Fatigue, self-loathing, anxiety, mutilation, and depression

are always worth being able to belong to everyone else.

From birth, all the messages whisper that the key to a full life is a light casket.