Where Did All The Anger Go?

Nov 22nd, 2018 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words

She raged against the shackles that fashion lashed around her body, that gender weighed upon her soul, and she spit and she clawed and she cursed the names of the boys who mocked her aspirations.

Until she fell in love with a man and he told her lies about what was possible and she managed to stop cursing all the boys and their contempt. The aspersions weren’t gone but just forgotten as she slowly bled to death.

She’d once promised to burn herself to ashes but that was long ago. Now she asked herself “Where did all the anger go?”

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