A gun shot
The silence of cold steel
Even though it’s not
Something I could ever conceal
Whenever I asked, she always replied, “fine”
I just assumed that meant she was okay
Nothing about her hinted at the malign
intention behind her external display
Her tweets got more frequent
Her Instagram posts more intense
The darker her content
The less it made any sense
The next time somebody doesn’t look like they’ll pull through
I think I’ll handle it better, I’ll know what to do
But First, Fiction 