Dishes

She stands there at the kitchen sink, scrubbing furiously. Scrubbing, scrubbing.1

She does that a lot when he's not home.2

"Mommy," I ask, "when can you play with me?"3

She keeps scrubbing the dishes. 4

Maybe she didn't hear me.5

I skip to the bedroom I share with my brother. "Tony, will you play with me?"6

"No." His voice is flat.7

The snap of a slammed door makes both of us flinch.8

He's home.9

"Tony...." My voice is half whisper, half whimper. "Do you think Daddy's happy today?"10

Tony glanced at me, his eyes full of fear. "No."11

The tinkle of shattering glass fills the house. I hear the incoherent bellowing of my father, and the usual, fearful pleading that follows.12

"I'm hungry," I whisper.13

"Wait 'til they're done," Tony whispers back.14

But, being only five years old, my hunger overpowers my brother's warning.15

I creep into the kitchen just as my father strikes Mommy across the face.16

"Don't hit Mommy!" I cry, running up to him and pulling his arm.17

"Get away from me, you piece of trash," he snarls, throwing me off. I fall to the floor and sit there, stunned.18

At that point, Daddy calms down. He leaves the house to go smoke.19

Mommy crawls near and pulls me into her arms. Quietly, we cry together.

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  • Mitsuki-Sakura
    October 4, 2008

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    when did you write something as sad asthis?! It makes me crycause you kind of know what's going to happen but you don't want it tohappen so you keep on reading to see if the author dared to do such. Great write. You are truly talented.


    Tsuku


    • Radiance
      October 4, 2008
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      The prompt for Creative Writing Club this week was "violence." We got to choose the kind of violence, and this was the most doable for me.... :/

      Thanks, though. I wasn't sure how well this would turn out; I don't usually write this sort of thing.

      • Mitsuki-Sakura
        October 4, 2008
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        oh I see well sometime soon you better write something happy so I don't have to be reading sad stories from you. Tehe. Your good at writing happy stories anyway.


  • Mads
    October 3, 2008

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    Ahhh... SAD! *tear* no, jk. Darkess is writing a story just like this. They always seem to be so interseting to me. Well anyway. I really liked this. I liked how when you see the title you would expect somthing a little different. I liked that little surprise! ^_^



    Awesome Job!

    • Radiance
      October 3, 2008
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      Thanks, hon. I'm glad you liked it; it's really far out of my normal genres, and it's the first real thing I've written (besides poems) in a REALLY long time.

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