It's 4:00am or so about, all that is recalled by my faulty memory is that within the time which I saw upon the face of my cellular device was a singular 4 and I would expect that to be the first integer. My eyes open further from their squinted gaze to a more suitable position for interpreting my surroundings. Slowly they go with a subtle jitter as if the muscles within my eyelid are struggling to pull the weight of my eyelashes. My left eye suddenly ceases in its progression and it takes me a few seconds before I realize I had once again slept with makeup on and consequently the mascara upon my eyelashes had become sticky and saturated with the moisture from my tears. The upper and lower eyelashes had become stuck and thus my left eye was unable to continue. I ran my hand across my face around the location of my left eye with my hand balled into a fist in order to maximize coverage. Slowly I pull myself up from my sitting position and swing my legs off the bed so I may fully extend my body into a standing position. I begin walking towards my bedroom door, brushing my hands past the stacks of monster cans as to gauge my distance from them and ensure that I do not disturb their resting state or trample one and cause a loud noise of catastrophic consequence. I leave my room, heading in the vague direction of the lavatories as I shamble and meander around the hallway. My legs weak, buckling inwards, and disorienting myself further I take a moment to sit upon the floor and reflect upon my evening. To my best memory my night had been spent primarily ingesting copious amounts of vodka and texting the entirety of the grouping of those people I consider friends. Anything from schizoid rants to trauma dumps, to jokes who's context was lost upon their audience. I grab a nearby shelf and raise myself from the floor, and as I glance to my flexing arm, both bony and muscular, and in this strained form, evoking imagery of rusty machinery, clunky, boxy, and disproportionate all falling apart from the wear of time. Suddenly aware of my ghoulish figure I run my hand along my forearms and legs, feeling short hairs prick up as I go. Something instinctive and implicit to my nature feels disgusted. My thoughts spiral and I become aware of every blemish upon my skin. The rough feel one gets when they touch my hand must resemble in sensation that of sandpaper. My skin flakes and the cuts on my arm although faded are still apparent even at night. I stumble my way into the bathroom and catch myself on the counter. My finger catches on something cold and sharp causing my body to flinch and repell itself from the counter. Hunched and tense I bring my head up to observe what I had touch. In the darkened atmosphere of the night I see nothing upon the counter however catch a glimpse at a bright white reflection in the mirror, glinting with the light of an LED stationed just down the hallway. I am able to make out the picture of my face, after some time of observation. Boney, and spotted with pimples, beedy eyes placed too close to the center, a forehead resembling the incline of a mountain. A nose so large and long that it leaves a long shadow stretching to the side of my face even in lighting which is almost directly cast upon my facade. My mouth is wide and slanted downwards. My jaw, wider and more jutting than even my forehead, yet still regressing into the folds of my neck. My hair long and stringy, coated in grease yet dry enough to knot and curl like cable. I start towards the counter and place my hands upon the ledge, leaning forward to analyze the features of my face. I look downwards to see the cold metallic object with gave me such surprise. A razor, small and sharp, delicate and petite. An object so quaint it could be considered antithetical to my existence. To think it's stained red from my blood. Pills scatter the counter, needles piled in the sink. Why do I take these anyway. I can't remember. Shame, misery, and an inexplicable hollowness fill me, I take the razor as it finally settles in what brings me such pain. I am a tranny, a troon, a transexual, nothing but a man, yet barely human.
- kekles