They blamed staring at computer screens for how our eyes got locked. The first transplants were difficult and expensive, but it wasn’t long before they were commonplace. After that, false eyes were sold to express different emotional moments. Crying eyes sold best, but ‘I love you’ pupils weren’t far behind.
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Ha! I like it.
For a buck fifty Sheena’d show you her left nipple, a tattoo of the flag across her breast. Two bucks and she’d put her hand down the front of your pants. But put five green ones and Sheena’d take out her glass eye and roll it around on her tongue.
They said she’d a lazy eye. The left one. When Missy looked your way, you couldn’t be sure. It didn’t matter none to me. In the dark she was just any girl in my bed. ‘Cept I woke and Missy’s eye was staring at me from a glass of water.
‘Can put your finger in if you dare,’ she said.
And Tommy did. Just the tip, dipping into the black hole where her eye should be.
Swear it’s true.
And Sara sucked on the glass marble, like it was a mint, then stuck out her tongue.
‘See.’
Corey was sick.
Their eyes met across a crowded room. She remembered the romantic slush she used to read when coupledom was what everyone aspired to. Now, 'joining the army', 'not having the legs for it' and just a throw away comment like 'He's really lost it' have taken on new meanings altogether.
I don't think I've said it yet - but thanks for sharing these with us Sarah. I've not been posting in the comments, but I've been writing to the prompts often, and with great pleasure.
And I've just put a few of the results up on my blog, with little reproductions of your photos (I hope you don't mind).
Of course I don't mind, Jem. Thanks for spreading the word!
Douglas and Kathryn, these are nicely creepy. This was a real box of false eyes (well, er obviously) at the Wellcome Collection - well worth a visit.
Thanks Susan!
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