Tuesday, November 24, 2015

a wary beginning - fiction

The flame had gone out, and he was falling asleep. Everything was so heavy in wake of all the news. He cried and cried but still could not find any relief. He began walking alone out of the park and back to the road. Where, would he go now, he wondered.
With no strong connections there wouldn’t be any place he needed to go. But, seeing as he could not physically leave the planet, he had to go somewhere. The pain felt so real but didn’t have much of basis in reality. It was just pain for the sake of pain? He didn’t really know.
With his backpack on and his zip off pants on, he wandered down the road going left or right didn’t really matter. In a way this sounds like freedom but the lack of a direction left him nose deep in self-doubt. His gut told him not to worry about it, but his thoughts were filled with them making it very hard to think straight.

As he reached into his pocket and pulled out a smoke, he pictured himself feeling some relief with the inhale of the cigarette. The nicotine would give a brief feeling of satisfaction which he was craving so badly. 

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