Candelaria by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Author:Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Candy came to. The figure slithering toward her wasn’t an embryo-creature but a knocked-over package of Welch’s Fruit Snacks. It was just Candy inside of the theater. Nobody was on the screen. The curtains were shut. She picked up her broom and set it by the entrance, then walked down to the bathroom. Outside, through the glass windows, she could see that it was nighttime. But how? Wasn’t it just the afternoon? Wasn’t she just talking to Rebecca about Indigenous Peoples’ Day?

Beetlejuice was at the bottom of the staircase with his hands out and his mouth grimacing and Candy jumped at the sight of him. In the bathroom, which was covered in spider webs, she took a few deep breaths. She was just dehydrated, probably, from throwing up her breakfast earlier. She stuck her hand beneath the electric faucet and splashed water on her face. Normal. Normal, still, normal. Breathing. Candy looked at herself in the mirror. Then, a sound behind her. Creaking. Something moving back and forth on its hinge.

You turn and the stalls move blink at you.

Look down.

Your hands are covered in blood. Scary, Candy.

Look in the mirror, Candy. Tell me what you see.

How did so much blood get on you?

You stick your hand under another faucet, which also spouts out blood. Another sink, more blood.

You tear out paper towels and wipe down your hands and your face, the towels staining quickly.

You feel nauseous. But by now you know it wasn’t the artisanal egg sandwich, don’t you?

Opening up a stall, you throw up in the toilet, as the stall door continued to bang behind you.

The lights flicker.

Worms crawl out of the toilet, and you use your boot to kick the handle of the toilet repeatedly.

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