[Angelic Dissonance]

Just asking-- Is your avatar a guy f**king a tree?

Anyway, very provoking. I think if you fleshed it out, you could submit it to a magazine and become a featured author. Then again, it's obviously meant to be a "SHORT" short story. I liked it, despite it being very disturbing... I've written some very disturbing things myself before, without even trying, just to show off my bombastically pompous vocabulary skills in such a manner as I am no longer sure I am capable of.

I once designed a peice of jewelry, to which I gave the title of the "Morbid Triskelion", a pendant necklace with the triple-flame on one side and a skull upon the other. It symbolised the fact that even without hope life STILL goes on(often leaving the hopeless to their prison-like fate, and failed suicide attempts are a perfect example of this). Your story kind of reminds me of this--but it is one more so of treachery, and the calamities that ensue when one entrusts hope to the imagination(and/or Naivete). I noticed you said,

Originally posted by Jochon
That means I ran out of imagination.

Forgive me for saying so, but it seems Imagination f**ked you over. I hope you can find new hope in it--without being deceived by false hopes.

Or is that all just my imagination?

Nice work, anyway.