Max the clown

Max was always bullied at school . he didn't know why . was it because of his appearance ? or the way he talks ? or ... or the stuff he's into ? he decided that it's because of everything about him . he decided that he was a freak .
Poor kid . Every day he stands in front of the mirror , looking at his dark brown hair , at his pale skin at his black eyes and wondered why he existed . he called himself ugly and stupid and then broke down in tears . Then he washed his face so his mother won't find out he was crying and went to school . Every single day he had to put a fake smile on and pretend he's ok .  Every single day he had to wear long sleeved shirts to cover up the cuts and the bruises on his arm . Every single day his desire for suicide grew and grew and grew ...


One day the popular kids wanted to prank him . so while he was in the showers after gym class they stole all of his clothes and left him a clown suit .
Figuring the clown suit is better than walking out naked he put it on and prepared himself to be humiliated .

When he came out everyone threw pies at him .
When the principal came everyone stopped and pretended to be innocent .
The principal suspended Max because " he was clowning around " .

Max returned home . He didn't answer his mom's interrogations
" Max ? Max honey why are you home so early ? Max ? what's that on your face? and what in heavens name are you wearing ?!"
He went into his room and slammed the door behind him .
He took out a small knife he was hiding under his bed and was about to stab himself but his phone vibrated .

He took it  out of his pocket and saw that someone invited him to like a facebook page .
The page was called " Max the clown" and the profile picture was his picture covered in pies .
And everyone was making fun of him and posting mean stuff about him .
They all called him : Max the clown .


He threw his phone to a dark corner of the room and stabbed himself in the  neck and then in the chest .
but he didn't die . he didn't even feel any pain  at all ! He stabbed himself in the forehead but still he felt nothing .
He watched the blood flow from his forehead and felt pleasure . the sent of blood kind of aroused him .

He sneaked out of the house and went to Jeremy's place . The clown prank was Jeremy's idea and now he's going to pay .

The next day Jeremy was found dead in his backyard . With a huge smile carved into his cheeks .

The next week a series of murders was troubling the police department . All the victims were kids that have bullied Max .
 Max .

 Max the 15 year old bullied kid .
Max The kid that drew a fake smile on his face each and everyday  .
 Max the boy who taught his victims how it feels like to wear a fake smile by carving a smile with his knife on their faces before stabbing them to death .
Max the boy who didn't die .
Max who wanted revenge .
Max the murderer that was never caught .
Max forever dressed as a clown .
Max the clown .


by Mada El-Horr

Sabrina

"let me tell you a story " said Sabrina's mother before she tucked her in and read her "beauty and the beast"
then she kissed her cheek and said " i love you " . What the mother didn't know is that those would be her last words .
Sabrina heard screams coming from downstairs . She got out of bed and stumbled her way down the stairs .
The five year old girl was afraid but what she saw as she walked into the kitchen was hundred times worse than her scariest nightmares . Her mother was lying on the floor covered with her crimson blood screaming with agony as a tall figure dressed in black stabbed her repeatedly . Sabrina quickly hid under the table and she watched helplessly as her mother took her last breaths . Than the mysterious criminal ran away through the back door .
Sabrina came out of her hiding place and looked at her mom with her wet green eyes .
"Wake up mommy ! wake up ! i want  a hug mommy ! please ! wake up mommy !"
the five year old fell to her knees and approached her mom . She laid her head on her mothers chest and cried her little heart out . Her face was red with sadness and blood . She soon fell asleep .
Sabrina and her mother lived alone . Sabrina's father disappeared when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant .

When Sabrina woke up she took the phone and dialed her aunts number :
"Aunty  mommy fell asleep and she won't wake up "
"what do you mean sweetheart ?"
"she's asleep and she won't wake up ! but her eyes are open !"
"ok baby i'm coming over right now "
The woman hung up , took her coat and drove to her sister's house . Only to find Sabrina covered in her mother's blood crying and begging her to wake up !
"Aunty Lucy please tell her to wake up ! i want a hug !"
Lucy took the phone and called the police . She wanted to collapse to the ground and cry and scream but she had to stay strong for her sister's child .
she hugged her niece and waited for the police .
They were never able to track the killer or figure out why he killed her but to Lucy that was of no importance. What she cared about now is tracking down Sabrina's father . it's not that she didn't want to keep her but she worked in a hospital and she didn't have the time to take care of her .

After a month of searching the police found the father . John Boregard . He was blond and had green eyes like his daughter . He worked as a mechanic . When he heard about what happened he showed his enthusiasm to raise the daughter he once abandoned .

He took her with him to his shabby apartment . Sabrina thought that he was going to love her and make her feel better . but she was wrong .

The man treated her like a maid . using a whip to punish her if she made the slightest mistakes .
He transferred her to a cheaper school where she got bullied . She would come home with tears and bruises only to face more pain . Everyone would forget her name . even her father .

"Hey snooki go get me a beer from the fridge !"
she handed him the beer
"my name is Sabrina daddy"
"No one cares you ugly idiot !"
he pushed her to the ground .

A few years later , when she hit her puberty at the age of 13 her father started raping her .

One day Lucy decided to surprise her with a visit . The father would normally insist that she calls before she visits  but she wanted to surprise them .
as she approached the house she heard Sabrina's screams of pain . She ran to the house and found John raping his own flesh and blood .
Lucy sued John and gained full custody of Sabrina .
Lucy quit her job and devoted her whole time to Sabrina trying to heal the wounds her father caused her
but Sabrina was far beyond healing .

at night Sabrina would lie in bed and replay two sentences in her head :
"let me tell you a story "
and
"i love you"
these were the only words she remembered her mother saying .
Sabrina enrolled in a new school and still she was bullied and everyone would forget her name .
Sabrina's sanity was hanging by a thin line . She started hearing voices in her head and she tried to resist them as long as possible . but one night . a night with a full moon she finally cracked .

she went to the kitchen and got the biggest knife she could find then went back to her room .
she sat in front of her mirror and started carving a giant S on her face with the knife while singing :

"the moon is up
and the night is pretty
the moon is up
and my knife is ready"
the girl's voice was no longer sweet it was rather evil .

When she was done the fourteen year old girl left the house still bleeding and headed to her dad's house .

"Hello daddy" she said in an innocent tone as she faced her father in his dark bedroom where he was sleeping .
he woke up and sat up .

"What do you want ?! get out of my house !"

she turned the lights on and he could see her now dry scar .

"Sabrina ! your face !"

"oh now you remember my name ! but i guess that's why i carved the S on my face so no one would forget my name ever again !"

"but it's just an S  ... a lot of names start with S"


" Says the guy that once called Patty !"

"i'm sorry ! now drop that knife "

she looked at the huge bloody knife in her hand and smiled devilishly .

" no daddy no .. let me tell you  a story "

" ok "

" Once upon a time there was a very bad daddy who didn't treat his daughter right . so the daughter ruined her face and came back for revenge "

she was a few inches away from him now and stabbed him with her knife . The story she was telling him was now a description of what she was doing to him .

" She stabbed him in the stomach and smiled as she saw blood  ... red beautiful blood ... then she cut off his arm and his screams of pure agony were like music to her ears ... then she looked him straight in the eyes as she pulled his heart out and made his  now dead body  swallow it whole .. "

When he finally died she kissed his cheek and said " i love you "


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a few weeks later a little girl explained to the police what she heard when her brother was getting killed
" i was hiding on his bed ... he was bothering me for three days and i wanted to get back at him with a prank.
i was just going to spill apple juice on his pants so he'll think he wet himself during the night . But then i heard an unfamiliar . it was the voice of a girl she said :
-let me tell you a story .
Once upon a time a little boy stole his little sister's candy , broke her favorite toys and spilled red paint all over her new dress . -
i don't know how she got into the house or how she found out that he did those things .. i guess she was watching us for a while ... then she said somethings about hurting him and making him swallow his own heart and as she was doing so i heard him scream . then when there was silent i heard a kiss and then she said :
- i love you -
when she was gone i called mommy and daddy they were invited to a restaurant or something . "

Sabrina was never caught .


by  Mada El-Horr