"hey"
"good evening, thank you for calling the suicide helpline, how may I help you?"
"I called the other day and there was this gir-"
"asher?"
"how'd you know?"
"asher, it's 3a-"
"yeah."
"shouldn't you be sleeping?"
"not sleeping is an excellent way to kill yourself from exhaustion."
"is it that or you just can't sleep?"
"both."
"..."
"..."
"how about you tell me something about you?"
"i'm a history major in college, and I write terrible poetry."
"ohh, tell me a fun historical fact."
"hitler died due to suicide an-"
"I think I didn't emphasize on the fun part enough."
"he killed his dog too."
"what a fudging-"
"hold up, did you just say fudging ?"
"yeah?"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"is someone paying you to laugh this much?"
"even if they did, i'd be broke."
"you barely laugh?"
"you don't swear?"
"don't answer my question with a question."
"oops, just did."
"shut up."
"i'm going to make you swear, helpline chick."
"you're going to fail at it."
"let's see."
"go to sleep, asher."
"good night, helpline girl."
"good night, asher."
-beep beep-
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Healing Asher
Short Storyin which a suicidal boy, learns how to drown his demons from a girl who is learning to live with her own. [lower case for stylistic purposes] [highest rank - #124 in short story as on 11-12-2016] cover by - @crookednights
