A Gamers Life – A blending of fiction and non-fiction that asks “what if” we were to atone for our choices.
Inside now, certainly dryer but no warmer.
Eyes need not adjust much in here, darkness is what drew him in.
He pauses for a moment taking in his surroundings. A dark room filled with even darker shadows.
Sparsely populated by shapes only slightly discernible.
…
It only gets worse.
I know what happened, now is the why.
…their why.
…
It’s impossible to describe the separation.
It’s as if I’m being ripped in two with both parts remaining whole.
Duplicity.
My body carries forward yet I remain behind. I can feel as myself but cannot feel as him, only remember.
…
I return once more to stark darkness.
Where was I, how did I get here?
Suspended, not sitting, not standing; a purgatory I’ve never imagined.
Empty, seemingly endless. Barren yet somehow full of…life?
…
“I don’t know when this all started nor if it will end?”
I suspect I’ve always been a gamer.
Gaming is my latest, and most resilient, addiction.
It has taken me in directions I never thought possible.
It has enriched my life.
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