Six eyes.
 
 Three pairs.
 
 Two green.
 
 Two hazel.
 
 Two blue.
 
 All fucking dead.
 
 “Oh, God,” I cry, dropping the newspaper to the table with a loud sob. The pain I’d been suffocating and willfully ignoring for long weeks—months—comes charging forward full steam ahead, obliterating me.
 
 I curl in on myself on the couch, forming a tight ball as sobs wrack through my body, so physically fucking painful, I can feel my bones creak and grind together. My heart thuds slowly, painfully knocking against my breastbone with every stubborn, unrelenting beat.
 
 My sobs die down to silence after a while, leaving me with ringing ears and blood-curdling, screaming memories.