Continue On Saturdays

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:

Have you ever seen a floor covered in blood? At first glance there is a simple beauty to it and how it contrasts with the white linoleum. It doesn’t immediately register that what you’re looking at is actually blood. Slowly a stiffness builds up in your body as your mind begins to realize that the beauty is actually life’s essence. Then what was a simple beauty becomes a repulsion. Seeing Marcus laid out with a meter wide red polka dot under him wasn’t beautiful. It was down right hysterical. Not hysterical as in funny, hysterical as in I can’t control my reaction kind of funny. I remember looking at Denise who stared back at me dumbfounded and thinking…