Another entry...

This is another entry to a Trifecta prompt.  There are three this week. This is a response to the second one, which requires the use of the third definition of the following word:

Score

3a: an account or reckoning originally kept by making marks on a tally

  b: amount due : indebtedness

The marks on the wall told a story.  It was a dull story, but it was his story; at least, of his last five years.  It was a story of sunrises and sensets bracketing hours of mind-rending boredom punctuated by stark, raving terror.  

It was his own fault.  His own reckless stupidity.  A night of drinking, careless words, then the broken bottle and skull. 

He wondered what became of the girl he had fought over, as the sun dipped low and cast barred shadows on the opposite wall.  He sighed, his shoulders remaining slumped after the exhale.  It was no use pondering such things.  It was time to add to the lopsided score of man against time.  It was time to make another mark on the wall.