The Separation Effect

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He lived his life in a haze; a very comfortable haze. Thickened by fear and doubt, the haze quickly developed into a dense fog of apathy and listlessness. He found comfort in routine and safety in solitude. The mental walls he had built were miles high and meters thick all to ensure the life he knew remained as plain and eventless as possible… just how he liked it.

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by Darrick J. Wessel The wall fell and the haze dissipated. The outside world was cold and unforgiving. Greed and anger brought back memories and the memories brought back pain… such pain. Confusion led to desperation, his situation left him angry and with few options, and the lack of options hand delivered him into madness; it released something dormant within him. He never meant to hurt anyone.

When he began showing signs of a serious problem they should have done more to help, instead they chose to wait and see. In the mind of a dizzy man everything is spinning out of control. The events that followed the onset of his vertigo were products of his spiraling decent.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction and whether those actions are real or fabrications of a fractured mind, that theorization remains the same.

Fantasy. Reality. Confusion. Betrayal. Rage. In the broken psyche of a disturbed man, the paper-thin barriers between them faded like distant memories and blended together, diluting each other with their inequity. But like memories often do, those barriers degraded and weakened with the stress of time. While in that compromised state... something escaped.

What happens when what those barriers were containing is released and allowed to run wild?

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by Darrick J. Wessel

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