#skullet

Anna Varney Cantodea, Larissa Ulrique (ig: roses_for_room) @rosesforrome , Mortem Aeternam (pinterest: mortemaeternam)

They were invited to this new tv show. One wheel. No way out. You spin, you sit, you get what it lands on.

Julien goes first. Long hair. The wheel clacks.

FLATTOP.

Mehdi bursts out laughing.

Julien doesn’t flinch. He sits. Clippers buzz. Hair drops.

The sides vanish. The top is flat, harsh, square.

He looks like a drill sergeant. Dead in the eyes.

Mehdi’s turn. Still laughing.

He spins.

HEADSHAVE.

Silence.

“No. Nah. I’m not doing that.”

Too late. He’s in the chair. Foam. Razor.

His curls fall off his skull like trash.

When it’s over, his head shines.

He looks down. No joke left.

Milo walks up. Spits in his palm. Spins.

SKULLET.

Julien winces. Mehdi doesn’t react.

The top goes first. Then the sides.

Long hair still flows down the back. It’s nasty. It’s perfect.

Dominik looks at Milo thinking deeply. « It missing something and i know what ». He then left and come in silence with a tattoo machine. Milo is scared but it’s too late.

Dominik — the barber — inks a black flame into Milo’s scalp.

Three guys. Three fates:

• Julien: flat and rigid.

• Mehdi: bald and broken.

• Milo: marked and proud.

Dominik lights a cigarette.

“Haircuts?

Nah. That was a sacrifice.”