Excerpt from The Second Reflection

Here a litte peek at my latest short story... 

Abigail looked in the mirror. Same old face. Honestly the way her life was going she wondered why she had a need for mirrors at all. She wasn’t sure if they were accurately reflecting what was reality or were they just some cruel fun house prank created by someone with low self-esteem to torment the masses and make them face their own demons. She splashed some water on her face as if to wash away the bad thoughts in her mind. There was no way that she was the only person in the world who felt like this when they looked at themselves. Mirrors are a mysterious thing. Their sole purpose in this life is to reflect what is shown before it, whether that be good or bad. They can be used to amplify light or create a sense of balance. In some cultures, it is said that they hold magical properties. All of which Abigail had no time to reflect on. You see Abigail was one of those people that settled. She gave up on the road less travelled and resigned to slave and toil for 40 hours a week like everyone else. Her idea of excitement was binge watching Netflix on a Saturday night…alone if you discount the company of Ben and Jerry. Life had become mundane and the act of leaving her house was enough to give her pause. Somewhere along the way she had lost her sense of adventure.

She was engulfed in a system that valued profit and those at the top. Anyone or thing below that was irrelevant. So here she was…Miss Irrelevant in the mirror about to be late for an irrelevant job that would fire her irrelevant ass then she wouldn’t be able to pay her irrelevant bills and live in her small irrelevantly tiny apartment. Abigail sighed audibly. She thought about all the random decisions she had made in her life… She wondered if there was some mistake she had made somewhere along the way that could’ve drastically effected the outcome of her present day........

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