You hear them in front of you or close behind you. Steady. Confident. Like a machine.
Step, step. “I can do this forever. Can you?”
Step, step. “I’m not a mere thing of flesh and blood like you. Are your muscles aching yet? Lungs burning? Mine aren’t.”
Step, step. “No hint of faltering. No change to the pattern. Just step, step forever or until you break. Can you match that?”
Step, step. “Have a little something in reserve? Something you’re saving for the end? I have more. You can hear that in my footsteps can’t you?”
Step, step. “You’re going to break. Getting hard to put one foot in front of the other now, isn’t it? At some point you aren’t going to be able to anymore, and I’ll just keep going.”
Step, step. “Why put yourself through this? You know you’re going to lose in the end.”
You can hear it in the footsteps. In front of you or close behind. Steady. Confident. Lying.
Dale C. author of Bear Country a suspense/Science Fiction romance
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Comments: 17
Sounds suspiciously like the voice in my head, except the words are just slightly different.
It is the beginning of our performance review cycle at work and the sharks are getting active....
Also, thanks for commenting on my self defense article. Although it may have scrolled off by now, I did have a Money feature on Gather too. Don't know why those features thrill me so but they do :)