by Susan Zalenski

Created on: July 29, 2011

When it comes to her the sensation of nails scraping on a blackboard is a pleasant thought.  Mona is a narcissistic, evil woman with the ability to make your skin crawl at the very sight of her.  She wasn't always that way and will defend her current insanity with ripping you apart if you allow her. 

Rhonda was her latest victim and when she was done using her she threw her away just as she had done all her previous employees.  Rhonda was eager to please and the afternoon of July, 7th was the finality of Rhonda's too long chain of abuse.  The humiliation that she had endured had turned a once strong and capable woman into a quivering and tormented being.  That day was different for Rhonda snapped and began to smash things in the office including the large portrait of Mona's late husband Theodore.  It was office gossip that he had a mistress for many years and Mona had hung onto this resentment letting it grow inside of her and spill out to others, in her own way making them pay for his deeds and her refusal to reach out for help. 

Mona began to scream and also threw things nearly hitting the hospital chaplain as he came through Mona's office door.  She was the Head Oncology Nurse of a large hospital and it was believed she had only kept her job due to the larged sum of money her late husband had donated to its Cancer Center.  She certainly had no bedside manner with her patients.

As the chaplain looked stunned and Rhonda ran from the office and far from the hospital Mona began to sob and fell on her knees repeating that the voices had to stop once and for all, talking in a child's voice.  It was the beginning of the end for Mona as she was helped out of her office and to the Psychiatrist's office where she refused to say anything except for, " I want my Daddy now."  Mona never recovered and began to drink heavily while also taking large quantities of prescription meds.  She died within six months and though sympathy from some was there it was a secret relief by many that she was gone for good.

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