Summer_Youth

L'appel du Vide is a French word that describes the feeling of wanting to jump of a high place but not actually do it. Although there is no word in English to describe this feeling, the English translation of L'appel du Vide is Call of the Void

The story is about a girl who experiences these “call of the void” but unlike the real “call of the void” where you don’t do the things you think of, the story is forced into a direction where the intrusive thoughts become reality.

L'appel du Vide

Macy let me have a puff of her vape. I didn't like it. It was too bitter. When I first asked her if I could try it, she was a tad shocked. She thought I was crazy but still let me try it.


I'm still trying to find a distraction but I still haven't found anything yet. Macy suggested that I should do some that gives me kick when I do it. When I asked her what she meant she told me "Try to find something that makes you happy or something you can get an adrenaline rush."


She asked me why I wanted to try a new hobby but all I told her was I just wasn't interested in my past hobbies.


I can't tell Macy what happened to. I'll try to hide it from her.


Around noon, I walked over to Macy's house to hang out. I usually go to the basement to grab my favorite plush toy Macy has. But when I went down to the basement, the light wouldn't turn on. It was dark but there was still some light shining from a distant window in the basement


Then I heard a mouse squeak. It scared me so I took the nearest thing and beat it with it. When I stopped hitting the floor, blood covered the broom and a messy pile of flesh and bone twitching before it had stopped. Luckily it was dark in there. I didn't want to look at it but my eyes kept trying to figure out what the mouse had looked like in the light.


Later I told Macy there was a dead mouse in her basement. My guilt had devoured me. Macy said she wasn't mad that I committed a murder. I tried to apologize to her about killing the mouse but she kept telling me her house was infested with mice.


I'll tell you a secret…I really enjoyed hitting that mouse. Never in a hundred or a thousand years would I think I would be willing to do this. I did have a thought about cutting off a cat's tail once but I never thought about really doing it.


Macy's House