Comfortably Numb The Departed Novels & Stories

SHUN COULDN’T wait for the day to end. His back hurts like hell, his shoulders slumped, and his feet are close to numb as he wiped the dirty table with a round rug. It’s almost 11 PM, and the last customer had just gotten out a few minutes ago. Now, he just had to wipe all the tables clean and lock up the resto before he can go home.

Death was not a sacrament for Donatos, only a craft. While the student noted this, the mentor looked in his direction expectantly. Only a few moments later, Tamir realized what the kreff was waiting for and, in a hurry, began to read the conspiracy that let go of the soul. Words in the language of the Departed were given with difficulty - they scratched the throat and with clubs of gray steam dissolved in the icy air. The men took up the shovels. Clods of frozen earth rattled on the lid of the domino. Babi's crying turned into an hysterical woeful cry.

"Farewell Idrish, m—my friend." A sob escaped me, a guttural cry that tore from the depths of my being. The world around me blurred as Bonbon's eyelid sealed the window to his soul. He slipped away, his touch fading, his life extinguished. He left a mark on my skin, an indelible imprint of his presence. A green mark, a poignant reminder of the bond we shared, began to spread across my body like a vine of grief.

We were building a future together. Was it all a lie? I feel like such a sell out. I should be mourning. I should feel a hollow ache in my chest at the loss of the woman who was dear to me. The future mother of my children. Yet I was numb. The sounds of traffic down below gave me a sense of comfort I haven’t felt since she died. The game had brought me back to life. I have felt so numb for so long, I almost didn’t know what to do with myself.

I was no longer feeling the void… the pain. In an instant, the anguish was extinguished, replaced by the eerie, numbing solace of The Darkness. Its icy, velvety embrace enveloped me, and I succumbed to its soothing balm, reveling in the sweet release from pain. But as the calm deepened, a new awareness began to stir within me. It started as a spark, a flicker of empowerment that swiftly grew into an uncontainable flame.

Everything inside of me just shut off, like the light has been put out. I robotically watched as life unfolded in front of my eyes, but none of the happenstances were registered in my brain. Elon picked me up as he had proclaimed, and he drove me to the Rhodez manor where Poseidon scooped me in a bear hug. I was alive, yet dead at the same time. I had my eyes snapped open, yet I felt nothing. If numbness was the cure to all the pain, then it was the sweetest medicine. ~~~

Do it. Someone switched the ventilator off while someone removed the tubes from Jeff one by one. Olivia placed the snow rabbit on Jeff's palm. "I love you, Dad." The warm sheen of sunlight caressed his palm, slowly melting the snow rabbit. His skinny fingers slightly tightened as though he was trying to hold the snow rabbit. A tear trickled down from the corner of his eye. It was his last farewell to Olivia. "You don't have to worry about me. I know what I'm going to do. I will live well."

The busy schedule left me no time to think about men at all. As it turned out, life without worrying about a man felt amazing. Daphne called me for an online meeting, excitedly telling me the project back home had wrapped up perfectly. The whole process had been full of setbacks, but thankfully, the ending was good and didn't affect either of our ability to make money. I asked casually what happened after I stepped away from the project. Daphne didn't think much of it and said, "Nothing major. The previous representative from Schwartz Corporation got fired over a serious mistake. I saw Mr. Schwartz treating her like she was priceless and even wondered if there was something shady going on. G

The departed and she inhales air as if she was about to die . "I Fucking Reject!"

Memories from the past flashed through Vivian's mind, and tears slid down her cheeks. Vivian suddenly woke up. The treatment was over.