Rage by Ronald Potter-Efron

Rage by Ronald Potter-Efron

Author:Ronald Potter-Efron [Potter-Efron, Ronald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608823628
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


Ten Years Later

Terry is twenty-six years old now. He’s had several rage blackouts since that first one with his father. What bothers him is that they seem to be coming more frequently and with less provocation. Here’s how Terry described his last rage: “It happened a couple weeks ago. I was at a party with two friends. I’d only had a couple beers. I wasn’t drunk or even tipsy. I noticed a guy named Joey was watching me. He was looking at me funny, like he was sizing me up for a fight. I was scared but pissed off at the same time. I felt hot and cold, one right after the other, back and forth, hot and cold. Well, I wasn’t going to wait for him to sneak up on me, so I walked over and challenged him. The next thing I knew, people were pulling me away. I lost about five minutes of time. They kicked me out of the party. My friends said I was cursing and yelling, screaming that I don’t take shit from nobody. They said I threatened to kill that guy. They said, from the look in my eyes, that I wanted to kill him.”

Terry doesn’t know what’s happening to him. He says he feels anxious a lot, but it’s a funny kind of anxiety. “It’s like there’s always someone ready to attack me. I have to be on the defensive. I feel like a soldier on guard duty patrolling the perimeter of a territory. You never know when somebody will start shooting at you.” Terry complains that he can’t trust anyone. He feels alone and unsafe in a constantly threatening world. He just cannot break free from this feeling of impending danger. “The funny thing,” Terry adds, “is actually I’m in no danger at all. My father hasn’t touched me since that day in my bedroom. He wouldn’t dare. And I live in a perfectly safe part of town. My girlfriend is sweet and gentle. She sees me go off and doesn’t understand at all why I do that. I don’t understand either. What’s wrong with me?”



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