Romper stomper bomper boo

3/14/2016

t had taken three quarters of a bottle of champagne for her to break the first one
upstairs. Swinging the heel of a particularly nasty open-toed Louboutin. Cracks
spidering out over the surface before the first slab fell. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do.
    Seven years, just like that. Then another seven. And seven more. And seven. A personal equation of ruin stretching from the master suite to the mudroom.
    Slumped on the terrazzo, the tile smeared with blood. The heel had snapped and she’d been using her fist. Or what was left of it. This last one, a hand mirror, wood frame spackled with fake verdigris, had been a gift. It shattered like all the rest.
    The house was quiet now. The lights were out. There was nothing left to break. Tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play.
    She tried to count. Had there been ten? Eleven? More. Each one now multiplied. A thousand thousand mirrors, scattered like breadcrumbs behind her. She picked up the hand mirror, knocking the last piece out of it. She held it up. I can see... I can see… But there was nothing on the other side. Just the same old world. She was alone.

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