Sunday, October 17, 2010

Modern-Day Faustian Story

I have decided to create my own Faustain story.
Today, women wish for happy lives and prosperity. One such women named Sarah Golit was  considered in all ways normal for she wished for these things as well. She was a single, working, mother of three who often chose the good of her children over the good of herself. On a chilly October morning she arrived to work only to be summoned to her boss's office. Her boss, Mr. Goodstein was not a good man at all. Sarah was his right-hand man so-to-speak and sadly she was catching up to him on the career ladder much too quickly. He quickly and softly told Sarah that she did not have the right work ethic (although she arrived at work early and had never taken a sick day except to take care of sick kids) and that he was letting her go. Sarah had 36 hours to pack up her personal items and be on her way. Immediately Sarah left the building and went to her car. She went to her mother's rest home where she planned on disscussing the day's events with her. Her mother was 87 and had suffered minor strokes and one heart attack prior to today. On October 30, 2009, Annie Golit passed due to a second, much more powerful heart attack. When Sarah arrived to Annie's suite and found her "watching tv" she screamed and ran out the door. The employees had not checked in on her for the past 2 days. The employee assigned to Annie was promptly fired and Sarah was left to her emotions. Like anyone would do, Sarah drove home in a daze and sat upon her bed for the next 3 hours mindlessly watching a silly cooking show that was at least a decade old. When the children arrived home on the bus they were immediately scared, their mother's face had taken on a cold, pale, stone-like quality. That evening when the children were asleep, albeit worried, Sarah was sitting in the backyard alone. At midnight, it started to rain and Sarah stayed outside under the porch where the rain did not touch her. The thunder started to roar and the lighting lit up the sky like a fluorecent light bulb. Sarah, still keeping her hard attitude, stayed outside when she saw a man walking through her yard. Her face suddenly lit up with aggression as she ran out to meet the man trespassing on her property. She held her fist high and ran to the man. His back was turned and hunched. She attempted to turn him around but the man swiftly turned and grabbed her by the arm. She saw his face and it was distorted with age, anger, and lack of sympathy. Sarah tried to scream but was somehow silenced though the man was only touching her wrist. We can not know what this man said to her only that the next day a call came from her office and offered her her job back with a promotion because her former boss had been fired for misconduct. Annie Golit was given a burial service beyond the means of both herself and of Sarah. Sarah herself suddenly aquired large sums of money that she passed off as bonuses from work and as money written off to her in her mother's will. Exactly 30 years later from her deal with whomever it was outside her house on Halloween morning, Sarah was involved in a violent car crash. Sarah passed but it was those that examined her body that were baffled for her injuries were far from consistant with car crash injuries. There was dismemberment and broken bones in her feet and skull. They found her heart completely removed though there was no entry wound to her body. We can assume what we would like from this legend; however, I personally prefer to think of it no more.

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