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Jenny On Fire (Audio and Text, Short Fiction -- 2007)


This is both the text and audio version of the story. There is a very slight difference in the audio...a couple words changed around but that is all.Clicking on the link will bring you to Mediafire where you can then download the file to your computer. My previous way failed as I think I exceeded their bandwidth allowance.


Jenny



Yemassee



Jenny, her arms waving wildly,  sped down the street, hair aflame, shrieking like a mad woman. Being midnight, dark windows were lit in alarm and territorial dogs began to bark, alerting the few along the block who had not heard her frenzied screams. Spent by her perilous flight, Jenny fell, sprawling to the curbside and moaned in agony until the flames died out.


Taking several heavy breaths, she rose from her sitting position and then removed a cigarette lighter from her white blouse pocket. Bending down, she flicked it twice and held the flame close to her hem and set her cotton dress afire. She screeched in agony as she again ran through the middle of the street, a bright trail following behind her. Blinded by the black plumes of smoke, she rammed into the side of a large green dumpster, her face smashing head first into the metal structure. Blood trickled down her nose, onto her blouse, creating a scarlet marble effect. She slumped again to the ground in a heap of ash and singed cloth.


Grimacing from the pain, Jenny pulled out her zippo once more and flicked. Cringing, her shaking hand aimed the flame toward her stained polyester blouse. The corners of her mouth quickly turned upward as the flames fervently grew. She waited for a moment until the fire caught hold, then rose one more time and began to run  down the sidewalk, Her head held high, mouth open wide, she held her arms out at a 45 degree angle, like an airplane...or a Phoenix, having risen from the ashes. The flames sparked from the polyester, shooting into the air, into the heavens, before softly falling to the ground.



The glow when viewed from a distance was a stark contrast to her frenetic cries and her ghastly moans that were becoming increasingly orgasmic.



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  • Niteskyy
    May 4

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    Wow!

    Your writings are in great depth, and I'm speechless as how to comment on them other that! I truly enjoy reading them. "Jenny" being one of them. Taken at face value, the chick has problems! lol...but my interpretation is that so much more is involved with the compulsion, pain, and pleasure involved and described here. Great writing my friend, truly masturbates the mind!


  • Sudo Nimh silver member
    April 15

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    Jeepers yem!..this is a very interesting angle on the fire obsession thingi can honestly say i've never read anything like it.


  • MayorMcCheese
    March 26

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    Flame broiled? She should have just come to McDonalds and saved herself the trouble.

    Interesting story of how damaging one's obsessions or even habits can be.


  • bigperm
    March 24

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    disco inferno...you know...nevermind

    girl on fire Pictures, Images and Photos

    nice write, talk about a masochist


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    March 22
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    I can in no way picture this as Jenny being a person,
    but rather the concept of Jenny
    as an obsession, a compulsion for pleasure
    no matter how much pain is incurred
    in the extended quest.

    I see this as quite the opposite of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, for this is a seemingly disasterous attempt
    to attain pleasure by repeating and repeating.
    no matter the consequences.

    Scary! And even scarier when read by that
    Mainer voice as if it were a perfectly normal
    story!!! Has that black cloud settled overhead?


    • Yemassee gold member
      March 22
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      Thanks for the wonderful comment M-C. Yep, she repeat what works for her, no matter how disastrous it is...the is pleasure to be had from the pain, and at least during the moment, a re-birth I suppose. I should follow her into tomorrow...I'm sure the pleasure would be replaced by emotional pain.


      • Aesthete2000 gold member
        March 22
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        Oh! For the sake of not giving your readers nightmares,
        may you follow a tomorrow with a happier ending,
        perhaps a mystery adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        I know I'm such a wimp
        and that you have the capacity
        to confront such horror
        being of stronger stock,
        but, oh, I hope you go
        more gently forward!!!


        • Yemassee gold member
          March 22
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          No, more likely, to avoid the hurt, she just puts on new clothes, lets her hair grow out and just does it all again...year after year. There aren't always happy endings. But I can follow-up this old story with a silly one...I can do that.


          • Aesthete2000 gold member
            March 22

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            Yay for silly!

            Ooops. just spilled periwinkle underglaze,
            on the table the floor, me. Now that's
            feeling blue, literally!!!

            • Yemassee gold member
              March 22

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              Periwinkle is blue? I learned something new today. Working at 6 a.m.? blech.


              • Aesthete2000 gold member
                March 22
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                Yes, but you can write intelligently
                when you first get up.

                I need twenty minutes under hot water
                before I am truly alive!!!


  • Melodies
    March 21

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    She's on drugs, right?

    Please tell me that this is a cartoon and the girl is not really a person but is a grasshopper. I could live with that because I once set a field on fire that was infested with grasshoppers. Your prose is really exceptionally excellent and should be installed in the Wild Writers' Hall of Fame." You aren't on steroids, are you?


  • pixiestix gold member
    March 21

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    I liked how you have her rising from the ashes like a Phoenix. How does she keep going?

    What's wrong with this chick? She's far beyond your every day run of the mill pyromaniac. She probably started off burning leaves with a magnifying glass as a kid and it just wasn't enough.



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