FFM16-25 On Your Own Head Be It by C-A-Harland, literature
Literature
FFM16-25 On Your Own Head Be It
PAGE 1
You are the last person alive on earth, and you hear a knock at the door. You go into the hall and hear the knock again.
To open the door go to Page 2
To slip out the back go to Page 5
PAGE 2
You pull the door open and a frightened woodpecker smacks you in the face with its wings. The woodpecker would make a decent meal. You haven’t eaten in days.
To follow the woodpecker go to Page 3
To stay in the house go to Page 4
PAGE 3
You chase the woodpecker down the road, but lose it outside an old warehouse. You hear groaning coming from inside and it sounds like voices. There could be people in there, people who can help you. Or it
this is a choice, like everything else by toxic-nebulae, literature
Literature
this is a choice, like everything else
I am going to harden
my heart to you
and I will do it as a
nighttime ritual.
I will keep vigil
for every tendril of
affection that crawls over me,
and then I will cut it out
like a weed,
like a weakness,
like something unwanted.
you will keep to your own
little box by the window
and you will flourish,
and you will grow
but you will not run
roughshod all over my garden.
not anymore.