One Page Short Stories #5: Broken

One Page Short Series is a story series created by Matthew Eng. Click here to see the Rules.

Broken
(12/17/14)

“How does it feel?” His head is perspiring into think rivers against his bulging neck. She voices concern without answering the question.

“I just don’t know,” she says. The hope and anger drain from his eyes. Something has knocked him off his high vantage point. he is defeated and broken all at once. The magician is out of tricks.

“You are a  goddamn liar! I can’t believe we are arguing over this!” He can’t help but scream in her face.

But she is not listening.

Little does he know…

she has been  broken

a lot longer than he will ever

care to fix.