Chasing Water by Anthony Ervin

Author:Anthony Ervin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

I empty out the pills into my palm. There are thirty-three. The most I’ve ever taken is two. I stare at them for a while. Then I swallow them all with water.

I sit on the bed in a lotus position. I shut my eyes and just start to breathe in and out deeply.

I hear the front door and I open my eyes. I remain in lotus.

The door to my room is open and my roommate glances in. He’s with a friend.

“Hey, man,” he says, “how’s it going? Just came back to grab something.” While he goes to get it, his friend waits by my door.

“I just popped a handful of pills,” I tell him.

“Whoa, man, that’s crazy,” he says.

Then they leave the apartment.

I close my eyes again and return my attention to my breathing and to stilling my mind. There’s no need for thought anymore. Soon it will all end and I will get answers.

A blanket of heaviness starts to press down on me. As it does, an intense fear grips me that I’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake. I open my eyes. My vision is clouding over.

I don’t want to die.

I panic and shove my fingers down my throat. Blackness closes in on the periphery of my vision. I retch but nothing comes up.

Then, darkness.

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