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"You can be anything you want" she said the day I left, a little encouragment for the journey
I was about to embark on. At least, that's what she thought she said, what I heard wasn't nearly
as good as that, what I heard was neither a wish for luck or an advice for the future, it was
an insult thrown on the pile of abuse I had already lived through.

Father was just a bag of nothing, lying there, sating his thirst with fluids of questionable
origin. We didn't talk, whenever we exchanged words it wasn't a conversation, it was him shouting
and me crying, I was nothing to him and I would stay nothing, just a pile of animated garbage,
ready to be thrown out at any moment, he made that very clear every single day.

So when I was old enough, I decided to leave, I took nothing with me besides a black garbage bag,
fitting don't you think, garbage throwing itself out, taking a bag with him to clean itself up,
the irony could've been considered comedy, but it wasn't that that caused the smile on my face,
it was the contents of the bag that left me content.

I stopped next to the river, watching the mucky waters flow, I turned my head and saw the trail
of red specks behind me, like a memento for my path. I threw the bag as far into the waters as I
could, the water splashed and then coloured red, I smiled and whispered to myself,

"Who's the garbage now... dad."
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My entry for the writer's ink Write Off challenge, the prompt was the word "garbage"
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*ulyferal May 20, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
I thought at first he was simply taking the few things he valued not the one thing he hated above all. Very chilling and macabre. I like your ability to paint a picture well enough to keep one glued to the end. Excellent work.
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~C3POwn May 20, 2012  Student Writer
thank you very much, i do my best ;)

also thanks for the fav ^^
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Ooh! Chilling and warped. How delightfully inventive. Nicely done.
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~C3POwn May 19, 2012  Student Writer
thank you very much ^^
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wow this is amazing! wasnt expecting that ending whatsoever! so much power and emotion involved!! ;) a great piece of work!
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~C3POwn May 18, 2012  Student Writer
thank you ^^
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*0hgravity May 18, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
ooo very dark take on the prompt. Such a full story created in so little time.
A captivating read for sure!
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~C3POwn May 18, 2012  Student Writer
why thank you ^^
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*0hgravity May 18, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
welcome!
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~LikeShamandalie May 18, 2012  Student Artist
Very nice, really like it ^^
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