“Things are going so well right now.” Wise fidgeted with the corner of his shirt. “I would have never thought there was a way forward from my last major collapse, yet here I am” He said turning bright eyes and an upturned eye brow towards the medium. She laid in the corner shivering not from cold but from the involuntary twitches of the nano suppressor withdraws. “I hope you find what you are looking for …

I hurried from my car ran up the stairs to my apartment 602 A. I threw my car keys in the bowl by the door and placed the brown paper bag on the dinning room table. What was I thinking? I reached for a glass and filled it up, and drank it. I waited for my head to clear. What was I thinking? The smile of realization cross my face. It had to be stress …

I lifted my arms high. Higher than I had ever lifted them. I stretched those tiny muscles near the connective tissue and felt the strain of wet crystallin bones as the pressure of my own effort moved them. My elbow made the smallest grissly sound. I felt the office chair beneath me. I wonder if she is okay? Last time I saw her she had the look of a woman who was heading into a …

Panic, that is what this is panic. I sat at school. The teacher lectured and I twisted in upon myself. A panic attack. Was I special? My mind’s eyes sought metrics, and numbers to quantify my uniqueness. I scanned the darkness of my inner world searching for something real that I could put my hands on. Something that told me I was indeed worth the space and time I was taking up. Voices, so many …

There it was the garden I had been working on for months now. I had tilled and watered, fertilized, and conditioned the soil. I had watered it with sweat and irradiated it with the sunlight of effort. I drove up from work got out of the car and left my briefcase in the car. I pulled my work shirt off leaving my undershirt and headed straight for the shed, skipping the obligatory entrance into the …