Damaged Doll by Zoe Blake

Author:Zoe Blake [Blake, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-14T18:00:00+00:00

Seven

I was seated upright on the sofa, watching TV, naked.

At least it was a macabre pantomime of someone watching TV.

John was at the kitchen table working on his laptop. He had been watching football. In life I had fucking hated watching football. Now I had no choice. I had no choice with anything in my so-called life.

The game was finally over, and he was engrossed in whatever he was working on.

My mouth was stretched around an empty beer bottle. He had shoved it in last night when he was finished fucking me. The neck of the bottle pressed down on my tongue, the rim pushing against the back of my throat. The muscles in my throat controlling my gag reflex had weakened and stilled hours ago. Now it was simply something I had to endure.

I could only imagine what I looked like. Propped up on his sofa, as if it were a normal Sunday at my boyfriend’s, the word whore written across my forehead with a beer bottle thrust into my mouth.

A man was on the screen. He was filming in the rain. He had on a bright blue poncho with a logo for WGG News. The information rattled in my dazed mind for a moment before I realized I recognized it. WGG was my local news station. All this time I had assumed I had been transported to someplace unreachable and yet, I was in my own home town.

Shielding his eyes against the rain, the man looked into the camera and gave his report.

Richard, it looks like the car has been down in the ravine for at least a month. A man walking his dog spotted something silver and called the police. Once firefighters were able to get down to the car, they did confirm there is a body inside. While police are not saying anything yet, I can report that the car type and license plate match that of the missing Jane Sedwick.

Hazy memories bounced around my brain till they began to take form.

My silver car skidding off the road into the ravine.

The smell of gasoline.

Crushed glass everywhere.

My willing myself not to die.

Jesus fuck!

The man on the television stepped to the side and motioned for the camera to pan out. I watched as two firemen carried a body bag up the final steps of the ravine before lowering it onto the wet asphalt.

Staring at the black body bag, I don’t even know what I felt. It was too much, too strange. This wasn’t happening. I was not looking at my own dead body in a bag. This cannot be how the universe works. It just can’t. It is too horrific, too cruel.

The news man broke into my wild thoughts…

As you know, police have long believed Jane Sedwick may have crashed the night she fled the scene from the gruesome triple homicide of Bayside Cheerleaders Heather Roge, Tiffany Myers and Lilah Murphy. Their bodies were found with shaved heads and multiple stab wounds. Jane Sedwick is the primary suspect but no trace of her has been found after an extensive manhunt by both local police and the FBI.

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