Stories tagged “Mascara”

  • Tears

    She stared at the blood on her hands. She had taken a life. She looked up at her mother, who told her it was time to go. Time to go before it was too late. She took a napkin, wiped at the blood. Out! Out damned spot! She looked up at her mother, who wa...

  • Love Stories Do That (tears challenge)

    She hated shopping, stores full of people, self-absorbed, vain, spending money they didn’t have on things that really had no value. She preferred second hand, vintage treasures that she recycled into her style. Elevator music that grated on her n...

  • Room 203

    The woman burst into the room, doors swinging violently but silently on their practical and well oiled hinges. Her eyes bled mascara in small traceable rivers of black down her porcelein face. Her eyes were puffy as she searched frantically around the ...

  • The Pride of a Decision Made

    The girl at the counter, whose most prominent feature was eyelashes so thick with mascara that they could be seen from behind, was buying a sheef of copy paper. The cashier wondered if she used an inkjet printer. She did. Wrong kind of paper. It’...