What can YOU say in six sentences?
Losers
Hurting is for losers.
Some people just can’t be hurt anymore, or ever, and it pisses the hell out of most people, damn snobbish attitude, they think.
It used to bother her, others’ aloofness, but now she enjoys it.
She looks average on the outside, not too fat to pity and not skinny enough to second look, but she’s far from average on the inside, for she has an abnormally small amygdala, thus little emotion — flat affect.
Sure, she cried at her husband’s funeral, but she had to, to play the part.
Getting caught was for losers too.
Some people just can’t be hurt anymore, or ever, and it pisses the hell out of most people, damn snobbish attitude, they think.
It used to bother her, others’ aloofness, but now she enjoys it.
She looks average on the outside, not too fat to pity and not skinny enough to second look, but she’s far from average on the inside, for she has an abnormally small amygdala, thus little emotion — flat affect.
Sure, she cried at her husband’s funeral, but she had to, to play the part.
Getting caught was for losers too.
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Comment by Jeanette Cheezum on July 3, 2009 at 7:16pm - Nice 6. I loved the kicker.
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Comment by Robert McEvily on July 3, 2009 at 2:03am - SHARP. Love it.
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Comment by Cita on July 3, 2009 at 12:08am - I love the fat and skinny description. excellent.
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Comment by Dude A Bydes on July 2, 2009 at 6:11pm - Erin: Thanks for the comment and thanks for writing this piece. I love characters whose complexity lies beneath a simple surface--as with most of us. It takes a talented eye, and ear to extract the truth from these everyday Janes and Dicks. (That may not have been the best choice of words I ever made...) -Dude
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Comment by mal on July 2, 2009 at 5:15pm - Sounds like an emotional buldozer......
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Comment by Michael Solender on July 2, 2009 at 4:53pm - bastard had it coming
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