Spookychild’s writings

Laying where she fell, she rested a while, unmoving. Her leg wound throbbed a bit but finally grew dull and almost painless. Sophia felt sleep creeping over her. With earnest effort, she managed to turn herself over. She was lying on her almost empty backpack. She had nearly forgotten it was on her back. The water was long gone. Only a few rock-hard crumbs were left and the knife. Sophia could feel it hard against the small of her back.
Could she do it now? Could she pull it out of the backpack and turn it on herself, and put it in her gut here, in the middle of climbing the backside of Howell Mountain. She could; she knew she could break free of her body and her wounds then. What would happen after she was dead? Was there an afterlife? Was there still a God to judge her sins? What would he say about the man she killed? If she would go to hell for that sin, then she might as well kill herself now.
Where was God? Was he somewhere in the vast universe, somewhere living among the stars? Or had he died the day the world ended?
She could see the sky and the stars now. She had almost forgotten about them. They were the same. The world had changed around Sophia. It was horrible and cruel now. It was no longer that life she had known before. She had not enjoyed life. But at least life had been livable. Now the only thing to keep her going on was the thought of getting home to her mom and her animals. Tears stung her eyes as she allowed herself to think of them again. She could see their faces in her mind. She could hear her mom’s voice and Monty’s bark in her ears.
The stars above her twinkled and shone sharply into her soul, not caring about the tears or the pain in her body. She closed her eyes, angry now at the peaceful and beautiful stars. How dare they exist. How dare they shine and shimmer as they always had. Sophia’s world had ended. Suddenly, in a few minutes, everything had changed. But the stars remained so high above her and untouched by the things that had destroyed her world. She flung her arm across her eyes as the tears poured out. Silently she cried for her old life, for her mom, dog, and precious cat.

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