Primacy of Darkness
“I reach up and touch the puckered lips of what remains of my head wound. Fingering the back of my head, I find another misshapen area surrounded by a bald patch.
It’s a good thing her aim was off. Had the bullet entered my brain closer to the center, my recovery would have been substantially longer, if I recovered at all. As it was, the left side completely took over as the lizard part of my brain amped up the healing on the damaged right side.
My muscle response continues to improve. A... couple of blocks from where I left Castillo probably shitting her pants, I enter a large park and manage a sprint, but no matter how fast I run, her face follows. Her face…the same face in my nightmares. The same face that had reflected my animal savagery so I could witness the monster I had become. I thought the flashbacks were bad, but seeing her real face, here, with that same look of hatred in her eyes, was unbearable. Her face broke me in Vietnam, and it was breaking me once again, shattering the illusion of what I thought I was.MoreLess
It’s a good thing her aim was off. Had the bullet entered my brain closer to the center, my recovery would have been substantially longer, if I recovered at all. As it was, the left side completely took over as the lizard part of my brain amped up the healing on the damaged right side.
My muscle response continues to improve. A... couple of blocks from where I left Castillo probably shitting her pants, I enter a large park and manage a sprint, but no matter how fast I run, her face follows. Her face…the same face in my nightmares. The same face that had reflected my animal savagery so I could witness the monster I had become. I thought the flashbacks were bad, but seeing her real face, here, with that same look of hatred in her eyes, was unbearable. Her face broke me in Vietnam, and it was breaking me once again, shattering the illusion of what I thought I was.MoreLess
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