Blue Eyes


Five Times Winona couldn't stand the sight of her son and the one time she wanted the moment to last forever.

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I - The Day He was Born

George is dead and she wants to die too. Winona wants to curl up in ball and hide in a dark place until she wakes up in George's arms and he tells her that it's all been a bad dream. His last words begin to echo in her mind and she feels her breath shorten. How is she going to live without him? An infant's cry interrupts her thoughts and she turns her attention to the bundle in her arms. She hasn't really looked at her son yet and after hushing him she distracts herself from life by counting his fingers and toes and studying his tiny features. He is her little Jimmy and he is perfect. He yawns and she smiles though her tears. Winona holds her breath as he blinks waiting to see what he'll do next but the moment she gets a good look at his eyes what's left of her world shatters. They're an impossible shade of blue that she has only seen on one other person. Jimmy has George's eyes. She has just enough sense left to hand him over to the doctor before she does something horrible and then she rolls to her side turning her back to him. She can hear Jimmy start to cry but can't find it within herself to care. The full impact of George's death hits her again an she beings to sob and then to scream. She feels the prick of a hypo on her neck and everything starts to darken. Her last sight is of a distressed nurse holding her crying son. Jimmy stole George's eyes and she's not sure can every forgive him for it. The day they return to Earth she will take him in her arms again, but it will be years before she can really look at him again.


So what do you think?

Is good, bad, so horrible it should be printed and then burned?