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I hear a door open but I can’t see it. The puppet strings of this body are cut and I can’t feel these hands.
A towel slips itself around my wrist. I blot the blood and toss the stained towel into the laundry.
As I walk downstairs (hurrying because Mom is coming inside), I plaster a picture-perfect smile onto my face.
“Hi, Sweetie.” She greets me and stares at her hands. The pager that’s enclosed in her fingers is beeping crazily.
Well this seems like its headed towards some dangerous territory. I absolutely love the vibe that you're creating here. On one level its a perfectly normal scene of someone heading down and running into their mother in the morning but there's that other layer of mystery and just general sense of impending doom that we've got going on here and it really makes for an awesome opening here.
“Hi.” I mumble. Have a normal conversation with your mother.
“How was school?” She holds the pager in the air and uses her free hand to cut some vegetables.
“Fine.” I answer.
“Are you hungry yet? I’m making some soup.” She sets the pager on the tabletop and continues to slice the vegetables.
Okayyy...well the start was a little more geared towards the doom side of things but here it seems we're focusing a little more on why said doom may be happening. At first it sounded like some external influence but now it seems this not so nice side to things is stemming more from the person itself and how the mother sometimes acts. Its an interesting change in direction here.
“Okay.” I say. I inhale deeply and head for my room.
A mother who ignores her own flesh-and-blood will not have a very orderly daughter.
I hope she realizes that.
Well this is a very interesting end point here. It reads almost like it'll be a bit of a threat here with how things are going down and as a reader you do find yourself wondering where exactly this may be heading. At any rate, I think it all comes together to make a pretty effective opening bit here that makes you want to find out more.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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