No More
written by: Teodora Vamvu
@teodora_vamvu
Darkness within is denser than any power outage.
***
“You’re my good girl.”
The voice echoes in her head as she sits on the toilet seat, staring at the crimson spots on her underwear and contemplating how uncomfortable tampons will feel. She’s the last of her schoolmates to get her period, but they’ll make fun of her no more.
She remembers years ago, when she first bled, as he professed his love and swore her to secrecy.
But as blackness threatens to pull her in, she now knows she’ll break her promise. She’s been a good girl, but no more.
AUGUST 2024 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords.com
Born, raised, and currently living in Bucharest, Romania, Teodora Vamvu is an online content manager and marketing specialist at a national radio station. She has flash fiction and short prose published on Spillwords, 101Words, Friday Flash Fiction, Globe Soup, and MetaStellar, and she is also part of two prose anthologies and an upcoming poetry one, published through Amazon, available in Kindle format and print-on-demand. Her CNF piece was a finalist in F(r)iction's Creative Non-Fiction Spring 2024 contest.
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