Tallie

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She lay there. Frozen. Was she sleeping? Her eyes closed softly as if they would flutter open at any given moment but as the world passed by. Watching. Waiting. wondering. Tallie's mother never offered a breath.

D E A D

A 4 letter word. 1 syllables. 2 D's. Backwords its Daed.

But it has the ability to shapeshift a world.

Tallie replayed this word over and over in her mind thinking of any other possible meaning. Yet all that came were words that summoned darkness.

That night they had stormed the house taking everything in sight. Tallie only assumed it was her fathers eyes she had looked deep into as he got wrestled to the floor. Searching his black bulbs for a atom of hope and comfort but nothing came. Hours passed by as tears rolled down here ghostly pale face. It took her what seemed like decades to decided to go from the floor boards and to see who was wailing in the distance.

Her younger sister. Paralysed. bleeding . Taliie whished there was something she could do to comfort her tragic sister but her hollow soul wouldn't allow it. Seeing her sister in this state didn't make her sad but angry, and the only words that escaped her chained mouth were

"I'm going to kill whoever did this." Next she plunged a knife though her little sisters throat. And moved on to go watch her mother die.

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