Wednesday, February 15, 2012

My Urban Myth


A True Story.


Los Angeles Times:
15 year old Linda Florever was found dead on April 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm. Professionals say her cause of death was a kitchen accident; staring at the microwave with it was heating her food. It was rumored that her eyeballs have decayed and she was found in a puddle of blood. Her death is told to be a pure accident.


The actual story:
Waking up at 5:30 in the afternoon was the usual routine for Linda Florever. She was a lazy block in one busy household. Her disabled sister has been accepted in Harvard, her mother runs a successful clothing business, and her father is your usual cigars smoking rich grey hair old guy with a newspaper. Linda did nothing, not even pay attention to those people that live under the same roof as her. She convinced her parents to homeschool her and just didn’t show up for her lessons. Everyone being so busy they dint notice the missed lessons besides the teacher. But Ms. Kinner doesn’t mind, she still gets paid.
Linda proceeded walking to the living room in a sluggish manner. Her phone started vibrating in her pocket, an unusual event. She picks up the strange object. Opening it up she started speaking into the device. It took her a while to realize she had actually received a text. Glaring at the tiny buttons she does her best to try and find it. The blinking envelope was hard to miss as Linda pressed on a key to open it. A story appeared on her screen from an unknown number.

A blind girl fell in love with boy, the boy asked for her hand in marriage.
She replied, “I’ll answer that when I get my vision back.” Soon enough someone donated their eyes for this girl.
After surgery she went over to her love and was disappointed to see that he was blind, so she broke up with him.
 “That’s alright; take care of my eyes for me.”  Was his response as he left her standing there.
Send this to 20 people or you will get a visit from this girl.

Linda stared at the flashing phone. Rolling her eyes she tossed her phone to the floor. She sat on the couch and cuddled up in a green thin blanket. Flipping through the channels nothing seemed to catch her attention; she saw it all before.
A couple hours pass and Linda is still huddled up on the couch. Her stomach grumbles from hunger as the commercials come to an end. Lazily she gets up and walks into the kitchen.
She opens the refrigerator door and takes left over pizza out of its container. She stuffs the triangular brick into the microwave. The microwave soon lights up illuminating the magic box.
This was Linda’s weakness. She was attracted to light; like a moth. That’s why she addicted to television, flashlights, etc.
Her eyes glue to the spinning pizza she didn’t notice someone else walked into the room. They stood right behind her, breathing down on her neck. She feels the sudden breath and tries to move. She doesn’t succeed. Her eyes were sucked into the microwave. The person’s hands wrap around her face forcing her to stare at the machine. On hand on her forehead another around her mouth. Linda’s eyes began to water but her attacker stretched her forehead upwards so she was unable to blink.
By now Linda has tried everything to get out of her attackers grip but they were too strong, “I gave you a warning didn’t I?” Linda’s sisters voice echoed in her ear. Linda let out a whimper. My own sister? She was the girl?
“You don’t understand,” Her sister’s voice began to quiver, “I need him back, I NEED HIM BACK!” She yelled throughout the house. How is no one hearing this?
“He gave me everything, and I broke up with him for it, I need to get him his vision back,” Her sister’s tears hit her shoulder, “Then he’ll take me back.” Her sister whispers the last part.
Soon enough Linda’s eyes began to give up into the microwave. She does her best to keep them from rolling backwards. That was not a good idea. Her eyes soon began to fall out forward. They hang out of her eye sockets with that one vain connected to her head. Her sister steps back as Linda falls down. Blood splattered everywhere as Linda’s head shattered oh the cold marble floor. The crack in her head soon started gushing out puddles and puddle of blood. Her small fragile body laid on top of her self made gooey red blanket.
Quickly and cautiously her sister grabbed a plastic bag and picked up Linda’s now unneeded eyes. Snipping the veins and laying out fake ashes.
“No one will know,” Her sister whispered, “No one will ever know.”

1 comment:

  1. I'm sorry it took me so long to get to this. It's awesome and sort of crazy. I especially like the text she gets.

    I actually think this story (or the romance/marriage one) would make a good narrative poem.

    That would be interesting to see. There is a definite freaky factor here.

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