She saw the frog twitching on the table and she could feel a strange texture bubbling up into her throat. It's what she wants to do, so why does she feel so sickened? All life must end. All life must end. And once it's ended, it can never return, so why do muscles still contract and give reactions? Are muscles more hopeful that they'll be in use? Are the muscles lonely without a spirit to give it purpose and life?
That's awfully unscientific of her. There's no proof of spirit or the soul that drives a human, so why can she taste the peanut butter and jelly becoming stronger in her throat?
"What's wrong? Feeling sick?" snickered one of her classmates.
All life must end, and once it ends, it's done.
I was totally thinking it was about a class science experiment before I got to the classmate's snickering! Nice vignette on that discomfort. I felt similarly when we had to dissect stuff for anatomy in high school. :/
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