Compilation of Hearts (Flash Fiction Anthology)

AGAINST DEPRESSION

Title: Close door

Her door is always close.

Everytime I walk past her quiet house I always see that her door is close. She just moved in a few weeks ago. I live from across and only saw her once.

She's skinny and looks pale. Her eyes had dark circles and her expression was lifeless. We are the same age but why does she give off a feeling of someone older?

I often look out from my window wondering if she'll ever come out or even peak outside for once, but she never did.

Until one day finally her door opened. I hurriedly ran to greet her but instead of a skinny girl two cops came out of the door.

“Suicide,” I heard one of them whisper. “She stabbed herself multiple times enough for her heart to be cut in many pieces.”

I... couldn't mutter a word. I wanted to say something but my lips were sealed tight.

I was dying to talk to that girl. Maybe instead of waiting for her door to open I should just have knocked.

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