Stories tagged “addict”
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Based On A Future True Story
“It seemed like a good idea at the time; this pill makes you feel good, and so does this one. So I took them both and everything went great for a while. Whenever I was asked how I was feeling it was always the same response, “AWEsome”...
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Drug In My Veins
I keep you in my veins like a drug I can’t get enough of. You circulate through my body and you send a rush to my brain. You take me away to an area of solitude that I thrive for. You still make my heart beat faster than the time before. People t...
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Two Lonely People
The office was full of pictures of a short, bald man standing next to his victims- mostly dead deer. I had passed other rooms on my way to this one, and their walls were covered with pictures of family and smiling patients. I know everyone in Hollywood...
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Green Eyes, Read Emails
Jason read the email with a growing feeling of nausea. Congressmen Barnes, his boss, was going to fire him on Friday for “improper use non-prescription pharmaceuticals.” Sure, he used meth, but every aide was on some kind of stimulant, the ...
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All the Wrong Answers
Jason was sick. He’d been living off of vodka and McDonalds for twenty-four hours and he felt miserable. He gazed deep into the brown cloud of vomit that filled his toilet without seeing anything. His body was still caught in the cycle- eat, drin...
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A Wild Ride
Neon signs beckoned with the garish vulgarity of a broken prostitute. By now they were easy to ignore, with so many clamoring to be heard, none stood out, and the eye slid past the visual noise. In a sad way, those signs represented the best and worst ...
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Powder
I lick the tip of my finger and dip it in the pile of white powder. Rubbing it along my swollen gums, I sigh. Relief. I’m soaring, but not like a bird. I’m soaring like an unstoppable force in the universe. It isn’t enough. It never i...