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"Matches"

by: Wes Robert Ward

Billy liked to play with matches. He played with them day and night. He played with matches all his life as he ignored others and their struggles and strife.

Strange they say he was maybe perhaps it's because he was hypnotized by the flame of fire. A deep down desire to watch it burn and flicker, spread about and get thicker.

An arsonist they would call him. A pyromaniac too. And yet he called himself only one thing and one thing only\u2026. an artist. The world was his canvas, and he wanted to burn it all.

Yes, he'd take a canister of gasoline, he tossed it everywhere. Sometimes before even striking the match he'd even build a pyre to praise his fire God. Spare the rod and spoil the child, they say. All I can say is he'd better not be in your neighborhood that day.

Then with a strike of a match he'd mesmerize his enchanted eyes over it for a time or two. Spellbound by the flame, the fire that flickers, roasts and burns, chaotic it churns. Then he flicks it onto the floor covered in gasoline, sometimes kerosene, and causes quite a scene.

Voom goes the sound that fills his ears. Voom goes the sound of it flowing and growing. It is his friend. It is the life he gives it as he watches his friend burn and destroy.

"Burn, my friend, burn," says he, "Create me a fire as far as the sea, keep burning for all to see including me. Send the world into black ash, burn every bit to the last."

Matches, he adored them. Such interesting tiny sticks that create fire with a flick of a thumb or the use of the side of the match box. A paragon of a paradox inside his abnormal brain as he thinks of a rain of fire and a river of flames.

Days of toy plastic soldiers and little cars and teddy bears gone\u2026 when he discovered matches he burned them all including floor, furniture, and walls.

He burned his room, his home, his parents, his siblings, more family, even friends. He burned the school, the town. He burned them all to the ground. And now he'd burn cities. And then he'd burn the world.

And after that he'd burn the galaxy.

That is what Billy told doctors in the mental institute that he is currently in. Where to begin\u2026 he's only ten years old. A sickness within him and yet not even water may extinguish the flames in his mind.

I guess only time will tell\u2026 unless he burns that as well.

The End. \ud83d\udd25

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