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Prompt: 001. “I did it! I did it! he kept saying”
1. “I did it! I did it! he kept saying” was how the newspaper quoted him, which other news outlets took to be a typo and corrected to ‘”I did it! I did it!” he kept saying‘. When people saw the headline in the news–his confession–they began turning on him.
A. His family was dead, and some editor somewhere had changed his words into a confession.
The horror of that day still lingered–dizzy from whatever the EMT had injected him with, he could only repeat what the man had said. “I did it! I did it!” And at their looks he’d explained: “‘I did it! I did it!’ he kept saying. Over and over again. It was all he would say as he killed them. That madman murdered my family. And I couldn’t do anything to stop him.”–as did the effects of his follow-up breakdown.
He hadn’t been able to work, and not just because people had ceased to hire him.
He got anxiety attacks. His heart would suddenly begin pounding and his head would get floaty and feel like it was too large.
He’d thrown up a few times just from thinking about people looking at him. Judging him.
He was a nervous wreck. And he blamed the media.
They’d turned his worst day into the worst ten years of his life.
2. It was an amazing Olympic win for their country, only a little spoiled by the man that kept yelling “I did it! I did it!” as he waved his medal over his head.
A. It was an amazing Olympic win for their country, only a little spoiled by the man that kept yelling “I did it! I did it!” as he waved his medal over his head.
Being such a small country, the athletes were welcomed home with a parade and a national holiday. It only seemed fair considering the honor they had brought to their people.
3. “I did it! I did it!” he kept saying with a disturbingly wide grin.
A. “I did it! I did it!” he kept saying with a disturbingly wide grin. Blood was smeared down the side of his neck and stained the front of his shirt and pants. His bare feet had left footprints all through the house.
Even as he was slammed into the ground and handcuffed, the grin didn’t leave. And by the time he was closed into the backseat of the patrol car, the grin was joined by a rusty sounding chuckle.
It was clear to see that he was proud of what he’d done, the depravities he had committed.
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