short stories #8

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(Edited)

Never trust mirrors

Anne was born in a wealthy family. Therefore, once she has gone to primary school, she moved to another big room where she's going to stay alone. If someones sees her room, he won't believe that this huge bedroom belongs to a little kid like Anne. She now has a large bed, and luxurious furniture made of Mahogany wood. But, what is really remarkable in this big room is THE MIRROR ! In fact, it was hung on the wooden wall in front of her bed. Anne really hates the mirror and told her parents to remove it. Their parents didn't care nonetheless since her parents only care about design and even said that the mirror makes her room much more beautiful.

The poor child couldn't sleep in front of the creepy mirror. Her innocent dreams turned into spooky nightmares. Then her parents finally decided to put a cover on it so as to be hidden. Actually, Anne's sleep has gotten better but still she wasn't totally confortable because the cover was falling from time to time. Until the sinsiter day came, and in which everything has changed.

The little girl woke up at midnight feeling extremely frightened, her heart was beating fast. She was following with her eyes the cover that was moving slightly. Then, she covered her face and counted from one to ten. Actually,she felt silly especially that she was already twelve years old and still have these phobias. That's why she decided to remove her hands and stare at the mirror.
This was eventually the most stupid way of behaving. A tall bloody arm was going out from the mirror, she was the one to remove the mirror's cover each time. Anne couldn't breathe of terror and went baack under her bedspread. She was just waiting. The few minutes that passed seemed like very long hours for the little girl. Suddenly, when Anne thought that she has been waiting for so long that the monster may have gone back from where he cames , she felt the bloody arm of the monster pulling out her bedspread. Furthermore, she heard the heavy sound of the monster's breathing which was litteraly on top of her. Anne had stayed paralyzed the whole night before the sun raised and the beast faded.
Right after that creepy beast disappeared, Anne screamed so loud that all the poeple in the house woke up.
As a consequence, Anne's parents hurried to her room and found out that their daughter has broken the mirror into pieces and crying hysterically. She told them everything about what happened. From that night on, Anne has dreamed only nightmares and hasn't felt inner peace again. She has almost gone crazy, she was even talking to things

As time goes by, Anne grew up and has already a daughter now. Her feelings started to get less overwhelming. Similary, Anne's husband bought a nice mirror for his daughter Selena. Unlike her mom, Selena didn't fear mirrors' world at all. One night, the same beast went out from Selena's mirror. However this time, the monster didn't attack the girl because Selena was stood there smiling and asking for the reason of its visit. The monster wondered and didn't expect such a behavior and asked the girl how she's remaining calm and didn't feel frightened. Despite Selena's young age she answered confidently that creatures like it only abuse girls who get anxious and horrified. In fact, the little girl wasn't calm but managed to look calm and not afraid in order not to repeat her mom's same mistake.Instead, she requested helping the beast. This last started crying and told Selena its whole story. The creepy monster was actually a girl with a black history ,whose father killed her without mercy just because she spoke honestly and told him to treat her without being indifferent. However, his dad was a psycho, he killed his only daughter just because she was genuine with him.
Since then, the girl used mirrors of little girls' room as a gate to go back to real life and just wanted someone to understand her feelings and to act with empathy toward her lost soul. If the littles girls refuse and scream, she stole their mind and they get crazy. Until that day came, and had met a unique girl - Selena- who didn't fear her and accepted to have a conversation. Finally, they hugged each other. Both of them was sharing the same gap. Anne had a crazy mother, and wished her mom to become normal, and the monster had a criminal father and missed her mom who was kind with her unlike her father. Then the monster promised Selena to give her mom her mind back. On the other hand, Selena promised she will always stay close to the monster and help her find her mom's lost soul.



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I love the story, just feel sad you call a lost soul a monster 😢

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Thankss @wakeupkitty. I can say that she was first a monster when she was having revenge steeling others girls' mind. But once she met Selena, her innocent sweetie soul emerged.

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I understood she changed and that is why it makes me sad you still call her a monster in the end.
She was not a monster in the first place but a monstrous deed was done to her and she was the victim and punished for it. And even after she changed she is still the monster!

I guess that is how people act and think. Victims are there to blame, if they change because of what happened to them they are a monster, if they change into the sweet person again they once were they still have the label of the monster.

And the one who caused this all?

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Yeah I completely agree with you! I'm amazed because you litteraly share the same ideas with me. Actually, I kept calling her a monster even at the end because I wanted to shedd light on what's really hapenning among humans. We always judge the person before knowing his dark past. As far as I'm concerned, there's no real criminal because a bad society is the one to give birth to such people. And moreover, the revenge is a nature in humanbeing. You know what. I did have empathy toward the lost soul more than I did toward Anne. Because that exactly what happens when we don't give new chances to persons like The little girl who was murdered in the story, she only wanted someone to understand her and treat her well unlike her father. On the other hand, if someone has a short vision to things in life, he would feel that Anne is the real victim.

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Well said. Your story will hopefully make people think and who knows even discuss like we do now.

Might be the fact you did call her a monster will make them ask/wonder why or feel sad like it does to me.

Human kind is hard and only sees what it likes to see. That is a dangerous thing and why gossiping works. We see it in our daily life, it's so easy to accuse but if it turns out to be wrong the bad name exists.

I write with prisoners. Frequently.discus this with my children. You did something wrong, you are punished but no way you van ever make what was wrong right. You will always stay the thief, molester, murderer, etc.
Once labelled...

So, what is the use of punishment if no one will ever trust you again? If you stay the pariah? 🤔

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Thank you so much I really appreciate your ideas, your feedback and furthermore your advice. Because as you said, unfortunately I'am always running out of SP. I didn't know how to get SP before you told me this. That's why thank you so much. And you know @wakeupkitty if only the others who upvoted my story had dicussed with us their ideas, their point of view as well. Because the main purpose of writing these short stories is not just for fun , I really want to send subliminal messages throughout the lines so that people start discussing and shedd light on essential life's topics

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