The girl chopped off all of her ratty red hair.
She thought Eli would like her better if he
could see her scalp tattoos; the dull blade
searing her like raw meat or cheap leather;
the blood blinded her & she tried rinsing her
bald head off in the sink; Eli wasn't at home
& she was bleeding so profusely from the head
that when she glimpsed herself at last in the
mirror, she fainted. Eli found her covered in
blood , carried her back to the bedroom &
****** her. Se was wide awake & singing in
the shower while he wondered how to get it
like that again. She was a cute Siberian;
undernourished & bone thin, she'd nearly bled
out but as long as her head was raised, she'd
recover soon enough. She'd always be a little
dizzy ... It occurred to him at once that she
was already dizzy ... she wasn't *******; just
arrested ... He didn't know her name. |