Ruby red lips and a Mona Lisa smile, perfect. Those eyes, dark and mysterious framed by arched brows, perfect. Hair, windblown or laying gently across bare shoulders, always perfect.
He was fascinated with perfection, obsessed with the woman of his dreams. His fantasy just beyond his grasp. Disappointment a constant, his failure riding him like a harbinger of disaster each time he reached out to grasp his obsession and she slipped through fingers moist with anticipation.
He knew what to do, what was missing. He knew and was prepared to make any sacrifice.
He laid out his tools on the counter, smiling to himself as he checked each with care; nothing was too good. He stared at the picture taped to the mirror as he reached down, with one hand grabbed his pene and testes with the other made one cut severing it all.
Now, now he would be perfect.
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“Where are you?”
“Right down the road, be there in minutes.”
July sat down to wait, ‘minutes, huh, been three days’.
Soon she heard the front door slam, “Honey, I’m home”.
She swung hard, cracked his head wide open that would teach him the difference between minutes and days.
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She was without tits or ass. She had a gap between her teeth. Her eyes crossed and her hair that terrible color.
Why did they all flock to her like crazed flies on road kill? Suzann fumed from her lonely barstool as Trudy flung her head back, laughing.
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She turned the can facing toward her, label out. She checks the shelves and begins turning the cans labels facing out.
“Shoppers the store will close in five minutes.”
She stared into her empty cart; her compulsive behavior had stopped her at the soup aisle. She sits down and quietly weeps.
It is the last of winter, actually I am very late getting these in but I thought I would share them with you anyway. Winter of Disturbing Flashes. Flash in the Pan is brought to you by the remarkable Red of M3 fame, to join in the fun read the rules at the link provided and get to flashing!
These were the final words and their count:
Obsessed with a word limit of 150, coming in dead on the nose at 159.
Cracked with a word limit of 50, coming in dead on the nose at 50.
Crazed with a word limit of 50, coming in dead on the nose at 50.
Compulsive with a word limit of 50, coming in dead on the nose at 49.
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