Reality

…..she felt the knife sliding between two ribs on the left side of his chest, and then she heard a gentle hissing sound as blood came gushing out of this newly created body orifice while the total stranger stumbled about awkwardly before silently toppling over backward onto an immaculately groomed carpet. JESUS CHRIST!!!!!  The horror of it all!!!  Diane gasped involuntarily while sweat rushed from every pore in her body, drenching her lavender pajama top as though she had just taken a lengthy shower in the garment; she found herself frantic to escape this hideous nightmare she found herself trapped within…..this horrible charade…..this ghoulish scene-playing–and the sooner the better!  But then she went to brush some rogue strands of hair back from her forehead…..and Diane quickly discovered the sticky blood on her hands was every bit as real as the transcendent fear she was feeling now in her heart…..