{"id":3489,"date":"2021-10-31T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2021-10-31T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:52:19","slug":"horror-story-construction-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/10\/31\/horror-story-construction-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Story Construction Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

#1: Provocative Opening Paragraph With Nothing To Support It<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a child, they cut away my face.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t done maliciously, but out of necessity: a necrotising infection was threatening to eat me away from within.<\/p>\n

Yet still, as a child, they cut away my face, left only gristle and bone.<\/p>\n

#2: An Attempt At Psychological Justification Of The Premise<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did not understand the reasons for it, did not appreciate the nuances of their decision. There was, from my view, simply a fever, delirium, darkness. Then confinement, confusion. Bandages, anaesthetics, salves, saline. Itchiness, discomfort, pain, boredom.<\/p>\n

And finally, that inevitable revelation, that shock before the mirror, the face gone, my face, gone, replaced by this horror, this void, this grotesque mask that was not, I knew, a mask at all. Rather, it was the foundation on which the mask of myself had been built. <\/p>\n

I turned away. I would not look.<\/p>\n

#3: Finale Of Extended Outrages, For Which No Prior Justifications Will Suffice<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Forty five pages of faces being slowly and painfully removed by the protagonist in some sort of ironic vengeance or poetic revenge or karmic retribution, I don\u2019t know, I can\u2019t remember now. It doesn\u2019t really matter.]<\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written in September 2020<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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