i am i
StoriesDiscuss i am i in the The Pen forums; i am i. i is a man of god, all though many see me as full of the devil. i does god’s work with a knife and a gun. ...
i am i. i is a man of god, all though many see me as full of the devil. i does god’s work with a knife and a gun. And they search for i, the way holy angels search for darkness.
They will never find i. i needs not to show i’s face to any man. When i moves i moves under god’s veil of the balckest night. i am i.
i walks with the bible. i walks with god. When i studies, it is the true words of divinity. i am i.
Through the cold night air i is traveling. i cut through the darkness, with no light but the light of the reflecting moon. the hills ahead are covered in snow. i walks over these hills, they thrash i’s feet with their evils. They cause i pain, but i walks further through the cold nights.
Mourning comes to i. Mourning spreads across the world. The sun is god’s holy eye. God is watching, and i knows. When i prays, god listens. This is why i is permitted to walk over snow. This is why i is permitted to walk over fire. i am i.
they come for i. the men in dark uniforms. These men have guns, but they do not have what i has. i has god, i has the word. When i hears the word, i knows absolute truth, i knows the one true path.
Sin must be purged from the world. i has original sin, i is equal to every soul. i must be cleaned. My sins they come to bother me, they come to harrass me. i thinks of woman, i thinks of desire. i knows that this is wromg, i cannot change this sin. i am i.
but i must be good. i must be clean. i must do something to remove the devil body that harrasses i when i wants to be good.
i has not seen other souls. i only sees, the soulless creatures that are animals. And i gets the urge. i cannot remember human. i cannot remember woman.
i now remembers a woman. yes, a holy woman who taught i. she spoke of her children, and her grandchildren. and i liked it. i desired it. i desied that woman, and envied the children, and grandchildren, they had her ;pve. they had her affection. i has faded from the memory of this woman’s mind. many would say that her beauty had withered. but i saw something else. i saw a glorious soul, whose beauty would not fade for eternity. Her beauty will be seen by god upon entrance to heaven, and by the eyes of i. i am i.
i has been alone, excpet for the grace of god. the uniform men are still looking, searching. they are unholy, they are evil. they are guided by the state which does not regard the laws of god. But they will be punished for their sins, for interfering with the will of god. i is the will of god, and they will feel his rwrath. Perhaps god will work through my hands.
i looks at i’s face in the stream. with a thorn and charcoal i begins to work. this thorn, will make other thorns. i wishes to be closer to god. i wishes to have the face of god. i’s face is not like god.
this thorn will make other thorns. i inserts the thorn in red clay. i inserts the thorn into i’s forehead. i is guided by i’s reflection. i makes thorns across i’s forehead. this is i’s face of jesus. i tattoos the crown of thorns.
in the snow, is i’s blood. i’s blood from the emulation of the apeartance of jesus. to the rails, i must travel. there is metal there that i can use. i am i.
i have a way, to persue jesus, to persuit what is good, in a way only a very few ever receive the honor of.
to the rails that cut through the forest, i travels. i travels with numb feet, that have blackened from cold. i’s hands are smashed with icy hammers. When the wind blows i’s face becomes as stiff as stone. But i ,must finish i’s mision. i’s orders come from the highest authority.
i was once another man, with another name. but the old names of i is gone. only the serveant of holyness remains. this is what makes i, the being known as i.
pain in i’s hands, pain in i’s feet, pain in eyes face. i is at the rails now. these rails were as forgotten as i’s old name. These rails are in ruins.
i lays out two railroad ties i does this in the shape of the most holy symbol, the crucifix. i pulls three railroad spikes from the worn old rails. i’s hands cannot feel the touch and sting of the ultra cold metal. i is beyond numb.
i grabs a heavy rock. i hammers the spike through i’s ankles first. i pounds the spike, with all i’s force. i ignores the pain. i’s pain is only proof of i’s closeness to god. i will walk across the fire, and i will not be burned. i will cross the dessert, and i will not starve. it is because i lives with the grace of god. it s beacuase jesus is i’s savior. i’s blood spills into the snow, making it steam. but i will live, i live by with god’s unblinking eyes. he sees i, and knows that i is embracing his holiness.
i pounds a spike through i’s left wrist. i’s takes i’s left hand, and holds the stone. i ignores the pain. i pound a spike through i’s right wrist. i’s blood is everwhere. steam rises from the red snow.
i lays against the railroad ties, in i’s crucifix. i closes his eyes. eye imagines the spear through jesus’s side. i feels the spear punture his body. i is self crucified.
if you liked this one I've got two other that ara about this character.
I have forgotten where when or how I came up with the character "i". But he's here. I haven't yet unearthed the details of his life. I've written a total of three stories of "i" The previous one was the third. This is the first. It was written when I was a junior in high school.
i am i.
i often wonder about i’s situation. i feels like i lives in a zoo. And why not? There are bars. they stare at i, like they would stare at an exotic beast. People go to zoos to see dangerouse and wild animals caged. An i is definitely the wildest animal of all. i is the serial killer. I am i.
When a young child plays with matches, or the older counterpart polishes the gun they are charmed. They are doing something considered evil, they are admiring something with the potential for death. They are indulging in the taboo of what is forbidden.
Perhaps that is why they come to see i. They all know about i. This is because of the book written about i. The prosecution, the police, they all conspired to write a book about i. They are true sinners, to condemn what is holy. I is what they call a psycho killer, a murderer who kills without guilt or reason. They call I intelligent but insane. Clever in i’s devices, but illiogical in usage. They are wrong and right. i kills without guilt, but my motives are pure. God knows this. God knows that I is not insane, and perhaps it is only god that knows that I is his servant.
i killed for was what made one man respected and another man irreverent. i killed for what made one nation feared and another weak. i killed for the science of determining what is truly good and what is truly evil. i kills for politics. i am i.
i plays chess in i’s mind to pass the time between the visits of the fascinated spectators. i always wins but I always loses. Before I’s closed eyes the chess board unfolds, the 64 black and white squares. The pieces follow, and I move the pieces. White first then black. The dreaded yet celebrated check mate always comes. i doesn’t know if i is happy or sad. i won yet i was defeated.
The strangers come to see i. Most gaze at the evil man behind steel bars. They gaze at eye like they would gaze at a sleeping demon. The gaze at eye with wonder and fear. They gaze at eye like they will someday gaze at god. i am i.
Some ask questions. Did you really keeps those people’s blood inside of bottles? Why do you call your killings political? Why did you poison the minds of teenagers? Why do you call yourself i? Did you ever have another name?
i never tells them the truth. i leave them to wonder. No answer could ever satisfy. I let them believe what they want to believe. i do not wish to spoil their image, of the murderous genius, who was insane but intelligent. They can only wonder, and fear the motives of the man who killed for secret reasons. Like the man polishing the gun, his fascination with death would not be so great if he knew the answer to the inevitable solved mystery of dying. i am i.
i has tattoos. i does them with i’s own hand. i has no gun and ink. I has a needle and toothpaste. Aquafresh was used for the red. i tattooed barbed wire across i’s forehead. When it healed the color of iron rusted by centuries was in i’s skin. Also tattooed to i’s arm is wilting red flowers. When they ask i why, i gives no reason. They do not understand. i believes art exists for the sake of art.
i closes i’s eyes, and begins to play chess . i waits for another spectator to want to see the wildest animal. And when they come i assures you that they will leave beguiled by the image of i as a dark man.
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They’re here, more spectators. Here to see black lightning in a bottle, earthquake in a can. They want to see i, a murderer behind bars. i am i.
They fix their vision like they would stare at a bloody accident. They want to see like I, despite the horror that i is.
But this time i has a trick in i’s mind. I ask a simple question to them before they have a chance to begin. i ask the tall one.
“Why do you wear a crucifix?”
“I am catholic.”
“If you are catholic do you believe in political murder?”
“No.”
i asks, “Then why do you wear the symbol of a political murder suicide?”
He did not know what to say. They left i alone with i’s thoughts. The only true friend i has.