Mary

by Kelvin V.A. Allison

Perhaps death would be a blessing when it came. Freedom from the pain and the abuse. But no, death was still death. Didn’t she and her friends have a right to live? A right to breathe and love and enjoy the world? Time lost all meaning to her as she stood there in the half-light, thinking about all her friends that had died during her life, her heart breaking as she pictured Lily just moments before being dragged away to her death.