FICTION: Instructions for the Use of Sulphuric Acid for Aesthetic Purposes by Stephanie Hutton

By storgy in Fiction on August 25, 2017October 14, 2017

Suitable for the following:

You have one of those faces – not pale enough to be china-doll memorable, but not dark enough to cause clicking tongues in your unwelcoming town.
Your features are placed just where they should be, like a child’s drawing of a face.
Your hair offers nothing more than a frame around your regularity.
Colleagues’ lips mumble and trip as they try to recall your name.
This disinterest is more painful than the smash of a fist.

Equipment needed:

A large glass bowl which echoes light from each brutal angle.
Analgesics

Instructions for use:

Trickle the liquid into the bowl, allowing it to sing. (Please note, the smell is both horrific and intoxicating).
Tie your tired hair at the nape of your neck.
If the answer to the following question is yes, then lower the face you were born with into the bowl.

Is this product right for me?

Would it be better to be seen for your ugliness than be ignored for your ordinariness?

Stephanie Hutton

Stephanie Hutton is a writer and clinical psychologist in Staffordshire, UK. She has published flash fiction, short stories and poetry online and in print. Find her at stephaniehutton.com

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