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every cruel epithet every hurled in fits of temper that I could never control.</p><p id="dd9f">Seven little cuts…both arms now…for the final showdown, the “Ok Corral” moment when I said I was leaving you.</p><p id="07d8">Eight little cuts…for my abandonment, of the one person who ever truly loved me, for me. God, what was I thinking?</p><p id="4446"><i>(So much blood now but it doesn’t hurt. WHY? I deserve to hurt…I deserve…)</i></p><p id="8a16"><i>Sherry McGuinn is a longtime Chicago-area writer and award-winning screenwriter. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and numerous other publications. Sherry’s manager is currently pitching her newest screenplay, a drama with dark, comedic overtones and inspired by a true story.</i></p><p id="3c94">Thank you for reading. Here’s something on the lighter side:</p><div id="ee2c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-jump-less-jump-rope-da4d99188406"> <div> <div>

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Excision

Cut and run.

One little cut…for that time I got ugly-drunk and jealous and ruined your birthday party.

Two little cuts…for my concerted inability to be soft, when “softness” would have cushioned your pain.

Three little cuts…for my not being there for you, when the shit came down and you needed me the most.

(These droplets. So red. Like my favorite lipstick.)

Four little cuts…for the constant bitching and nagging at you to “pick up this” and “put away that.”

Five little cuts…for thinking I could be unfaithful when my faith in “us” was put to the test. I wasn’t. I couldn’t.

(Drip. Drip. Drip. And on and on she goes.)

Six little cuts…for every cruel epithet every hurled in fits of temper that I could never control.

Seven little cuts…both arms now…for the final showdown, the “Ok Corral” moment when I said I was leaving you.

Eight little cuts…for my abandonment, of the one person who ever truly loved me, for me. God, what was I thinking?

(So much blood now but it doesn’t hurt. WHY? I deserve to hurt…I deserve…)

Sherry McGuinn is a longtime Chicago-area writer and award-winning screenwriter. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and numerous other publications. Sherry’s manager is currently pitching her newest screenplay, a drama with dark, comedic overtones and inspired by a true story.

Thank you for reading. Here’s something on the lighter side:

The “Rope-Less Jump Rope”

What goes up, must come down, like my drawers.

medium.com

Power of the Pussy, Indeed!

On getting filmdom fame from a squat and a thrust.

medium.com