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[talon]

The phone rings, and rings again, and again, and finally goes to voicemail. This is Jared, a familiar voice tells him. I can't get to you right now, but let me know I can do and I'll be there to help. Leave a message!"Hey," he says, after the beep, "I wouldn't be calling you right now if I didn't need it really badly, but I've just been... it's

Comments

[alycewilson]

Great take on the prompt.

[talon]

Thanks!

[halfshellvenus]

I hadn't realized this was a real drug!

This makes me think of Fight Club, but internalized to the ultimate degree.

I feel for this character. His surges of anger are nothing that he wants or needs, but he can't get them under control. :(

[talon]

It's not! Er. I think? I based it off a combination of drugs and a few medical papers I've read recently on aggression and drug interactions.

[hosticle_fifer]

I didn't know this was a real drug until I read the comments. Yikes - it's like a Xanax followed by bath salts. The inexorable march towards what we knew was coming was full of a low dread just under the surface, excellent job!

[talon]

Wait. It's not! Or at least, I didn't think it was. I made it up - the aggressiveness comes from PCP, the high from weed, and the interaction a more aggressive form of withdrawal that some medical studies have shown to exist. Though now that I think of it, there's almost certainly some form out there.

[crisp_sobriety]

Oh, damn, poor guy. I just can't get over how close he was to fixing things.

This is great, as always!

[jem0000000]

Poor guy. What a difficult spiral to deal with.