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The Screaming Boy

He was screaming, this boy, in the middle of the road. He'd been there all day. He looked a bit like your son, you thought, but your son would have been at school by now. You looked out of your window at him. There was something you loved about seeing an abandoned child cry and scream and sob. Perhaps it was the futility of it all. Perhaps you were just a bit evil. Perhaps you didn't even love it but hated it, and had known so little love and so little hate you couldn't tell which was which.

And still he was crying. What would you do?

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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for NineMenOnRocks "I love this story- any path I choose makes me laugh about something or other."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for YellowHat17 "Strange"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for keptani "This is such a sad story!"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Timbus "How do I hook up with those lezzers on the right."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for surreal78 "FYI - edit is available to the posts's author for 1 hour after a post is made, UNLESS someone's already branched it. If that's already happened, you're out of luck. ;)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Raz "It's a good thing there's an edit button then, Radlord (it appears on the top right but does not appear if there are any branches leading off of your post)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for radlord "I may need an edit button soon, lest I make even more of an arse of myself with my awful spelling and typing."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for surreal78 "Hmm, those super long song lyrics with no punctuation are foiling my random excerpter. I'll have to do a little tweaking there. :)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Mass_Debate "you see the child smile for the first time*"

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