Cuffs - 100 Words

I'm late for this entry. The inspiration didn't strike until just now. This is a bit of a continuation from last week. I drop an F-bomb or two in this one so stop reading right now if you get offended by foul language.

handcuffs

Last Tuesday (God, has it been a week already? fuck.), a social worker told me I wasn't suffering enough for his organization to help me. He handed me fliers from organizations offering sliding-scale fees, wished me luck, and showed me the door.

Fine.

OK.

Whatever, man.

I'll sit here in my emotional handcuffs until I find someone who'll listen for the right price. Maybe then I'll be heard. All I want, really, is someone to HEAR me when I speak (for fuck's sake, he sure as hell didn't listen).

Why should I have to pay for that?

Why should anyone?

Sleek and Sharp

This week's 100 word challenge prompt is sleek. Here's my contribution:

Sleek and Sharp

It began when he muttered that cursed sentence, 'We need to talk.'

The resulting pain is relentless, sleek, and sharp. It has settled in the pit of my stomach, has branched up into my chest and squeezes my heart with every breath. Pain chases my blood around my veins until it is all I know. I am crippled by this invisible force and I hate it. I rail at it and want it gone but know it will own me until the acceptance settles in.

His name used to by my joy. It is now my lament and my penance.

Ample Optimism

Second submission for Velvet Verbosity's 100 Words! It's been a bit crazy around here so I missed a couple of weeks.

Ample Optimism

Right now she has food to eat and a roof over her head . She tries not to worry about what she doesn't have and budgets what she does have mercilessly. The rest will fall into place once her job, her career, is found. Then, the stress over money and making ends meet will abate. The worries about keeping her house will cease. She'll finally be able to replace that screwed up drainage pipe. Unemployment is tough and the worry of it all is wreaking havoc on her health.

Soon, though, there will be ample resources for joy.

She hopes.