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The Burka

She killed 3 men this time. Like the others before them, she did not want to kill them, but she had no choice. they had pulled her burka off of her face. They had all seen her face. They never should have pulled off her burka. That was a mistake, a very very bad mistake. They thought her a woman out numbered, surrounded, and therefore helpless. That was a very bad mistake. She was far from helpless.

She takes the peices of their bodies and stuffs each in a different garbage bag, in different dumpsters along the alley. With luck, they will never be found, and they will forever be thought of as missing. She resolves that she will pray and ask for forgiveness once she is out of the city.

She moves through the city quietly, making sure to avoid anyone who might see her. By the time dawn comes, she is back in her cave in the woods. She likes her cave. It is one of the best she had ever lived in. She will miss it if attention of the 3 dead men heats up and she has to leave and live somewhere else. She lights a candle and takes off the burka. She sometimes resents the burka, it is too hot in the summer. But her religion demands that no one see her face in public.

She sometimes wishes she had never found this religion with its strange demands of morallity. That she had never met that crazy blind fanatic that had talked of it with her for months. She sometimes wonders if she took up with this religion just to keep having someone to talk to. But no matter the initial reason, it was a part of her now.

Medeeza, daughter of Medusa, kisses the cross on the chain around her neck just as she has done every day for over a thousand years. She prays for forgiveness, she prays for the 3 men who saw her face and died. She prays for the blind fanatic she came to love over a thousand years ago and still misses today. She prays for help to be more careful, so that no one else will see her face in the future.

Medeeza, Christian daughter of Medusa, in a burka... Wow lol, that's outside the box. Very creative!

The makings of an interesting novel. It scared me.

Steve

Definitely an out of the box post ...thanks for stretching our imaginations