first of all, i should tell you that i am reading a new book. yes, i finally finished/got fed up with my old book, and started something new. i wanted something nice. something easy. i am reading 'the new gothic', a collection of excerpts and short story Gothics. (no, not goth, Gothic, there's a difference!!!)
anyway, a lot of these are completely insane and weird and gross, so it's kind of hard to say what bad stuff is happening. and anyway, devils taking over the earth is not exactly a 'social issue'. so i thought long and hard, and i finally came up with something. NEGLECT.
I'm going to focus on one story in particular. it's called 'Blood', and it's about this girl who goes to the dentist, and he gruesomely pulls a tooth out of her mouth, and it never stops bleeding. and she goes back to school, but no one's there, so she starts playing piano, and someone asks her what she's playing and she opens her mouth to say 'motzart' without thinking and the blood spills out over the piano keys, and it doesn't stop. this doesn't sound so bad, but there's some kind of nightmarish terror that builds up until the one time that she forgets. maybe it's something to do with the fact that there's no one waiting for her when she gets to school, that no one cares that she won't stop bleeding. that there's no one to help her.
I know that neglect is a very broad issue. maybe i can narrow it down to neglect of children. adults re expected to do things on their own, but children sometimes need a little help. like in this story. she didn't know what to do. but if there had been someone there, someone to ask her if she was okay, someone waiting for her to come back, it would have made it so much better. maybe hat's the issue. not enough people waiting for others to get home. because we all need someone waiting, worrying about us sometimes. someone to make the world seem smaller and warmer. because if we don't have that, life turns into a nightmare. life turns into a Gothic novel.
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