Before
The smell hit me first.
Coppery and thick, I knew what I was smelling before I had even switched on the light.
It clung to my tongue, coating the inside of my mouth, until I had no choice but to swallow down the metallic taste of it.
Shakily, I reached out, my fingers trembling so much that I missed the light switch on the first attempt.
It wasn’t that I wanted to see what I already knew was there, more that I had to see it.
I had to…with my own two eyes.
Two seconds it took, though it felt like a lifetime, for my eyes to finally get used to the light. The moment they did, I wished I was back in the darkness.
Red.
My whole living room was red.
The walls were splattered and dripping; the carpet squelched as I took a step forward. And even that small step splashed drople
