Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27091999-20151019200544

Don’t turn me over



I’m not a bad kid. But I have my hobbies. In my local library, we have these little note cards for people to write down ISBN numbers on. I love to draw on them, terrible horrible things; Creatures, monsters, ghouls anything grotesque I can come up with. And then I sum it up with a warning: “don’t turn me over” on the blank side,  and “I warned you” on the picture side. I shuffle these back into the pile for unsuspecting strangers to find.

I’ve drawn skeletal beings draped in moldy moth bitten rags.

Obese cannibals, feeding off their own viscera.

Fanged infants chewing their way out of their mother’s womb.

Withering old men with their spines exposed and scalps removed, smiling in ecstasy. I must have dozens upon dozens of these note cards floating around. Waiting for some unwary patron of the library to find them and shriek in terror over the visceral beauty of my art.



I don’t know why I love doing it. I just love imagining people’s faces when they find the pictures. The sickening disgust as the gruesome image is revealed to them. I don’t want to say it’s all I have to live for, but I feel like it defines me. It’s the only reason I go to the library, I’ve never even checked out a book there. I only go there to draw in my free time.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Or at least I did until I found a card. Not one of my own, you see I always drew in black ink (it’s sort of my signature, obviously I can’t sign my name), this card however, had on the front, in blue ink: “DON’T TURN ME OVER!” It wasn’t even my handwriting.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I was enraged. I WAS FURIOUS! How could someone steal this from me? I never considered I could attract a copycat. I almost laughed at the idea. Who would copy me? What kind of joke was this? Not to toot my own horn, but I was pretty experienced. I wasn’t as good as some artists that you see online, but I’d like to imagine I could be one day. So what kind of punk thought they could play my game? what kind of hopeless loser thought they were as good as me?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I stared at the card in my hand “DON’T TURN ME OVER!” it proclaimed. And something inside me told me not to. I wanted to take that dare, I wanted to show this wannabe up, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I just stared at the words “DON’T TURN ME OVER!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I flipped the card over, and I was confused, and then frightened by what I saw. There in blue ink, was a picture of me.

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