It was all over, life, love and greed. Stanley Walker was dead and Karen
was suspended in an uncontrollable limbo. She was empty with a gaping
chasm that once contained her hopes and dreams. Fear circled around her
thoughts making her body shiver involuntarily as she sat against the wall
of her luxury bathroom. All of the money, all of the material things
refused to help her containing nothing to quieten her raging thoughts.
Before she knew it the tears were slipping down her face giving release the
pain she felt inside. It had been caged inside of her behind tinted glass
- not even Stanley had seen her true feelings and they had started to
become memories in stone until now. The feel of wet tears against her face
frightened her as they dragged the pain and emotion out into the world like
a newborn baby. Like a mother Karen finally gave in to the unexpected
arrival of these feelings and sobbed openly into the towel she held -
screaming into the fabric until energy abandoned her and she lay on the
floor in a numb heap. The cage door was locked once more in an enclosure
of Vicodin and Vodka. The mask was touched up and Karen left the bathroom
complacent with the world and leaving behind the revolution of emotions
until the next time when she slipped.
