Short Story: The Parting (Part 1)
Written by keysinunez.com on 8/27/2006 – 7:27 pm - 1,142 ViewsThe air reeked of body odor, the floor littered with cigarette butts and crumpled beer cans. In the semi-darkness of the corners in the place, lovers were talking, kissing, groping each other, oblivious to the masses of the stinking, sweaty crowd uncontrollably banging their heads to the incessant beat of the dark, Goth song “Lost Souls in the Hallway.â€?
In the far end of the room, to his left, a discernible queue of teenagers were slowly moving towards a small bathroom. Their faces held the look of delusion, while some had the look of contempt, and then some had the look of apathy. The faint yellow light coming from the bathroom cast an eerie glow on the faces of the people. From where he was standing, the whole scene looked like a shtick from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. It gave him goose bumps just thinking about it.
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