How It Ends (flash fiction)

~ joanne the geek

How It Ends

I felt tired of everything: the pain, the loneliness, the black gaping emptiness. I took a pill to numb everything, and then took another, and another, then another, until they were all gone.

They found me collapsed on the floor, lost in a labyrinth of dark dreams. Then I was lying on a gurney and a doctor was standing over me. She opened my eyelids and shone a light into my eyes.

“Pupils unresponsive and no pulse. Time of death: six twenty two pm.” She said. I wanted to tell her she was wrong, but my body wouldn’t move. I was alive. I wasn’t dead. The doctor closed my eyelids. Darkness.

Joanne Fisher

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I live in Christchurch, New Zealand. My interests include writing, film, music, art, books, and pursuing my geek interests such as Star Wars, and Magic the Gathering.

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