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Invisible twice
By Stingo128
23 September 2009

Just a story I started writing and I got sort of carried away in a sense, so I wanted to know what people think of it, and if any critiques? Many thanks :)


Slowly, the knife falls out of my stained hand, dropping loudly onto the clean tiled floor. Clattering as it lands, drops of blood fly from the knife spattering the white tiles which smelled like cheap flower fragrance. My eyes close slowly as my blood drains from my body, slithering down my hands and my fingertips to begin it’s descent onto the floor. My weak body finally giving in as I fall to the ground and my eyes finally close. All around me blood envelopes my delicate body, my watch smashes as I hit the ground. 2:45pm. My eyelids open for one last look at the miserable world and then they droop for the last time. One last breath, one last thought. Silence.

 

Silent tears fall from my mother’s cheeks as my coffin is slowly lowered down into the small hole that had been dug for me. Other than her, and a few of my friends, there were not many people at my funeral. Sad, yet maybe that was why I had done it, committed suicide I mean, my friends hadn’t always been the kindest and my mother was never there. She left me at home alone almost every night, and that was dangerous for a girl like me, especially my age.

 

I was there, yet, I felt invisible in a way sometimes. Well, now is not much different either, really. Dead or alive I still feel invisible. Yes, I know. I’m a ghost, and it’s making me wonder… what do you do after you die? Where do you go? I mean, if there wasn’t anywhere to go I’m sure I would’ve seen other ghosts by now, right? Or am I just being silly, millions of people die in this state monthly, so how come I’m the only one here? Or maybe I just wasn’t good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell? I don’t know, I’m really not sure. But, at least, I’m finally away from all the troubles of my human life. Now, the question must be, where to go now?

Reviews

Written by MadDogMcQ (3 comments posted) 23rd September 2009
Hi Stingo. Well, there's not much there to critique to be honest. The real question is (as you point out yourself in the last line), where to go now? 
 
Are you going to extend this into a full-blown story? Apart from the punctuation (which distracted me), I was quite intrigued by what was going on. 
 
I didn't think the sentence "drops of blood fly from the knife spattering the white tiles which smelled like cheap flower fragrance" made much sense. Do tiles smell?? 
 
Tom

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (5077 comments posted) 23rd September 2009
Is that it?  
I have to agree there isn't enough to make it a story. It's really just an introduction. It's OK, taut and pacey but just and introduction. 
The two POVs were a bit odd. I'd be tempted to lose the first paragraph and start with the description of the funeral and then reveal it's the corpse talking, unless the actual suicide is significant but as it's so short I've no way of knowing. 
Any more? 
jane
Thanks
Written by Stingo128 (8 comments posted) 23rd September 2009
I started off just writing and hopefully to continue it into a full story 
 
(Also, the bit with the flower fragranced tiles is like when you mop a floor with cheap antibacterial stuff which smells like flowers. I intended to put something like that in but I just couldn't find a way to write it.) 
 
The suicide is intended to be a major factor in the story as she will have flashbacks of the moments before she decided to commit suicide

Written by kaymitchell (15 comments posted) 28th September 2009
think its a good start, would like to see more so can make a better judgement of it 
 
:)

Written by Sivier (12 comments posted) 31st December 2009
Well, I thought the imagery was quite nice. And as a starting point for an emotional ghost story I would say it has potential. 
 
One small critique if I may. The many instances of the word 'my' jumped out of the first paragraph and swarmed around my head, buzzing and biting. I'd lose a few if I were you. 

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