Hallucinations

By David Barrett

A short story memoir in which I deal with my past addictions through the eyes of my alter ego Diego. It takes us through my twenty fifth year of my life which I spent in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The three hallucinations serve as markers for both my self destructive spiral and growing co-dependency. I've written this years after I stopped using to purge my demons, and share my story with friends.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Barrett
• Release date: Sep 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465804853

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Hallucinations

by David Morley Barrett

Copyright David Morley Barrett

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Diego is dead. And I killed him. That was the last favor I gave to my dying friend. Healthy in all discernable aspects, but his mind intent on killing him. What must it be like to find yourself suddenly bound naked in a field covered in honey and unable to move as crows and vultures fly overhead? Diego knew how every muscle in the body screams out and the mind wants to move but there seems to be a disconnect between the nervous system and the rest of the body. No matter how deeply you know that you have to move, your body will not obey. It is going to do what it knows. The mind will soon lapse and follow. Nothing can be done, but to be still and hope not to be seen by the birds. Hope is all there is. There cannot be a God or god or Supreme Being. There can't be. If something were out there to watch over me, how could it let me get into this situation? There will be no Deus ex Machina.

Diego wanted freedom. He chased it and only it, negating all else that came his way. He said No to so much, to everything until eventually he was chained to his