A Child's Addiction
An girl who struggles sees no way to escape her shame.
Charlene has come back to the same choice again. What choice does she have but to give in? She always has, no matter how much she doesn't want to.
But when she's offered a chance, the strength, to choose something different, is it enough to make her face her shame? Is it enough to win her struggle? Is it enough to satisfy her soul?
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A Child's Addiction is a flash fiction piece available free to newsletter subscribers. It's about guilt, shame, struggling, and one more try.
Excerpt from A Child's Addiction:
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My toe hits something and I stumble. “Ah!” I fall down, and my hands land on it.
It's cold, soothing to my hot body. I can't see it, but I don't have to see it to know what it looks like. It looks like release from this guilt and shame, it looks like peace, it looks dark and forbidding like death. And I know what's where it leads, the place it will bring me to, this place of the slow dying of guilt, shame, and separation from Him.
But I want it so bad.
As I grip its slender neck, I hear Him again.