Of a Late July Night

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Overhead, the stars hung in clusters so dense that whole new layers of the tiny pricks of light emerged the longer Gloria stared. Examining a particularly thick population, which may or may not have been the Milky Way, she decided the view would have been described as beautiful by the typical person. To her however, the stars only reminded her of a face with terrible acne, although not necessarily devoid of a certain beauty. She pulled herself up into a sitting position, feeling the not too unpleasant scrape of roof shingles against her cool skin. With her legs pulled to her chest, Gloria absently kissed her knees, which were much colder than her lips. Pricks of stubble from two weeks' growth poked her mouth and she let her tongue slide briefly over the small area against which she was pressed. Her knees tasted of sun lotion and smelled of coconut.

Below her, the swimming pool was still in the absence of wind. She looked down to see if the stars were reflected in the water, but they weren't. In fact, there was nothing in the pool at all besides the quite chlorinated water. Maybe she wouldn't do it after all. It was late, well into the technical part of morning and it would be very easy to just fo


rget the whole thing and go to bed. She was tired. But she wasn't sleepy. The truth was, she hadn't done much of anything in the past few weeks since school had let out and this day hadn't been much different. The only real difference was that she was up awfully late sitting on the roof of her house when she could have easily been inside drifting off to sleep. What was compelling her to remain out there? She dropped her right hand from around her legs and reached for the square pad of paper which lay near her bare feet.

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She turned on her left side and worked a small plastic item from her right side pocket. It was a small pink Bic lighter. The child-safety lock had been expertly removed. She flipped the lighter once, twice before it caught, presenting a tiny light to the night air. Gloria fingered the papers to find the first one. Order didn't really matter, but if any of this mattered anyway perhaps order was also somehow important. When she had it, she held her breath, without meaning to, and held it to the flame. It caught and burned a steady flame across the paper. Gloria reached out her hand and dropped

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