Then they all died

Camilla 2022-10-29 22:36:48

I just accidentally saw the texture of this film somewhere, and I instantly thought of a terrible summer that was being formatted by my hard and careful attempts. Sticky air, unable to stretch the eyebrows. I climbed to the roof with a boy - no, he has nothing to do with the whole story, he's just a good-looking and cute, um, classmate - because I'm bored and the roof is windy,

I can't easily get out of the small stairs Go out and walk to the rooftop. This is an unusual move, I have always been afraid of heights, and always feel like I will fall and die, from the roof, from the stairs, from the mountain, from all kinds of places. The bird's-eye view on TV makes my limbs go limp, my heart beats faster, and the palms and soles of my feet sweat. In the twilight light, I suddenly saw the pointed railing on the side of the rooftop, and I screamed in a conditioned reflex. The boy said, what's the matter? I said, I just watched a movie two days ago, and it also has this kind of pointy railing in it, it is terrible. what film? Virgin suicide. uh, what are you talking about?

Well,,, said the family had 5 daughters,,, and then they all died

We were both silent for a few seconds, then laughed together. His eyes were squinted, and I laughed so hard that I bent down,

and now I think about it, I feel a little sad,

so I try to smile, as I did at the time, turning pale and stiff

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  • Narrator: [Narration] In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the *outrageousness* of a human being thinking only of herself.

  • Narrator: We felt the imprisonment of being a girl.