Hallucination of Iraq and Afghanistan

By Vindhyawasini Anand

This book talks about the hallucinations of Dexter Louis and goes deep into a war zone where characters unfold and reality gets checked as characters build up and feelings and emotions get played for the sake of war. Characters in themselves start to hallucinate. Eac

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
• Release date: Apr 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9789358191134

Book preview

CHAPTER-1

BOOK SMART GONE WRONG

Dexter Louis was born in India but raised in America. Her parents moved to the US when she was barely two years old. Her parents were ‘full professors’ in America. She was brought up well and strictly by her parents as a growing child. Louis' parents did everything to ensure that their kid got proper education. She had brainy folks, intelligence was bestowed upon her; naturally! You could blame her parent’s genes for it that compelled her to work smartly which shaped her career. She excelled in her school as well in college. Louis chose to follow her parents' footpath. She went ahead to pursue PhD from a reputed college of America. She was working tirelessly day and night on her advanced research on ‘war affair’. In the stretch of two years she had already submitted three research papers for which she received (A+) on all the three research papers by her department. She was on the verge of finishing her fourth research paper and anticipated to get better grades on what she had received for her last three papers.

Louis never took time off from her studies to indulge in any extracurricular activity. She had quite few friends. Most of them were naysayers.

There was a grand function in the college where her colleague had planned an after party at their place. She was also invited. Her colleagues exhorted her to come for the party and insisted she would have a great time for some hours as well as escape from monotonous work for some hours. Hesitantly unwillingly she decided to go to the party. Around 8 o’clock in the night Louis left from her house, venue was at one of her colleague’s house located in a high-class neighbourhood. When she reached the venue, at her friend’s doorstep, an unexpected huge mansion surprised her, as guest had flocked around the mansion. It seemed her colleague folks were business tycoon; rumours were that her parents had gifted her the mansion on her birthday.

As Louis entered the house looking out for her colleagues, loud music reverberating inside, people were enjoying hard drinks, dancing in the strobing light. Louis in the crowded hall met Arnie, who was host of the party, and stridently Arnie said, ‘hello!’ to Louis since music was too loud. She grabbed her hand and dragged her to the basement. Louis was staggered to see the basement filled with smoke. Arnie introduced Louis to one of her friends who casually offered marijuana to smoke but Louis immediately refused. Arnie told her other friend to chill! and offered Louis a mixed drink. A couple of minutes later Louis got passively stoned due to inhaling an excess amount of marijuana smoke, slowly she started sipping her mixed drink as she saw everyone around drinking. People were passing doobie in rotation; ‘it was like a ritual amongst stoners.’ A popular saying was (puff puff and pass!). Light-headed acting normal Louis took a few drag not letting anybody know that she is an amateur, and slowly passed it ahead. Everyone was having a good time, especially Louis as it was her first time to any party. She was down a couple of drinks and continued enjoying hard drinks.

She saw people snorting white powder lines from a table, eccentrically Louis asked her friend what they were snorting. Arnie told her it’s cocaine. She asked if she wanted to try it out! drunk as well as stoned Louis couldn’t refuse her. She snorted a thick line of cocaine, a minutes later post snorting, she passed out. Next morning, she woke up with blues and saw a guy injecting something in his arms. Slowly with heavy-headed she went out to look for her friend. Arnie was sitting near the swimming pool enjoying doobie. Louis told Arnie that she was not feeling well. Immediately Arnie offered lit doobie and told her with face gesture assurance that it would help her ease hangover. Louis felt like someone was striking repeatedly with the fists on her head, helpless she couldn’t refuse, after pulling few drags of doobie as Arnie told she really felt much better. Before she could even realise merely in a few months she fell into addiction-pit.

Gradually Louis stopped working on her projects and research papers. She started meeting Paula more frequently and began to attend parties more often. She started abusing drugs, once she even shoved a ‘molly pill’ in her ear to get ecstasy. Suddenly Arnie and Louis became pals. They started experimenting with all kinds of illegal drugs together with popular street names such as Adam, B-Bombs, Candy flipping, Charity, Cloud nine, Blue kisses, Blue lips, Diamond, Disco biscuits, E-puddle, Egyptians etc. You name it they were having it all! Hardly in six months’ period of time going round the circle as she had stopped showing undue concern towards her health which cost her well-being, she was in a weakened and feeble state, similar to a junkie’s life. Louis' normal life hit the skids as days passed by. She had spent all her savings on drugs and was left with a penny. In addition to this she even failed to pay her flat rent for the past six months. Louis' flat owner gave her last warning to pay her due rent. A month later for not paying the flat-bills she was thrown out of her apartment. She was twisted as life took a bumpy turn with no past experience of living on the streets like a homeless, flat owner had confiscated all her stuff as repayment if she didn’t pay her bills. She was left with only a stock of illegal drugs as mental strength to keep trudging in life. In the bustling streets of New York like homeless she started begging. Solely she survived a month on the streets. For the past week she didn’t get food to eat. She was sharp-set starving, defeatist Louis injected heroin to brush off her hunger and slowly in the corner of a building fell spark out.

CHAPTER-2

NEWSWOMEN

Carol was a war journalist and had to be away for months from family, while she was away at work her husband took care of Johnny.

Johnny was a growing lad who lived with his Mother-Carol with a pet, a dog breed Chihuahua named Diamond.

After her husband's death, she decided to quit her job, so she could take proper care of her son. As she was in her apartment gazing outside the window while Johnny was being chased after Diamond; the voice of Johnny yelling and Diamond’s woof… woof… went unnoticed, lost in her thoughts. Johnny was too young to register his father's loss. Lost in her astray thoughts absent minded looking at traffic signals constantly blinking, as vehicles kept moving in different directions, cars halted as the