STORY STARTER
Submitted by Ellipsis
'…and all they could do was cry.'
Write a short story that ends with this as the final line.
Chicken
TW: Excessive Foul Language, mentions of knifes and cutting not related to sh
Why can’t I cut my own damn food
They gave me a sharper better knife
But it doesn’t matter
I still can’t cut my food
My wrists ache
My fingers throb
From just holding a knife
Why does it hurt so damn bad
At fourteen my mother should not have to ask
If I need her to cut my food
I try to put on my mask
But It just fucking breaks
I can’t get shit right
It never goes away
The pain chips down the ice
Till my true feelings are out on display
Why do my hands
Hurt so damn bad
I want to scream at my body
To do one thing right
Just one fucking thing
Just one
Why can’t I cut my own food
It’s embarrassing to sit there
Wincing in pain
Just trying to cut chicken
I want to yell at my hands
To fucking behave
But they don’t
They continuously ache
Every drag of the knife
I twist my wrists
And crack my fingers
No one likes the sound
Why would they?
Its not just this
But a pile, a list
Because my body is shit
And I can’t do one thing right
Just one fucking thing
There are so many reasons
I feel this way
Not that I should have to explain
But all people do is invalidate
People don’t understand
just how much I fucking suffer some days
Where I cry on the floor in pain
Shouting at my body
“please just be ok”
I can’t even eat
my favorite fucking ice cream flavor
Because if I did
It would make me feel
As if I was subjected to agony
My joints would hurt
And I wouldn’t sleep
Because I would have ingested
In one thing I can’t fucking eat
I have to sit in the shower
What normal teenager sits in the shower
But its because my body is shit
And I know it
But dammit
Why does it not ever get better
Why does it continue to hurt
Why can’t it fucking go away
But I will always circle back to
The fact of today
That I can barely cut chicken
That my body is shit
But most doctors say “ take more medicine”
Most people say I am exaggerating
So I guess all I can do is fucking cry