Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Bitter Grounds



Bitter Grounds is a 2003 Neil Gaiman short story. You can read it online here. It begins,
In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door, I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.

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  1. sad when anyone has this viewpoint life-but I know it does happen with severe depression-sigh

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    1. Sometimes regular life feels like a horror story :(

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  2. I shall check this out.

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    1. I hope you like it. He has a way with words :)

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  3. Great Story. Happy Fright Night, Valerie

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    1. We had no frights here, I'm happy to say lol We re-watched some Hellsing Ultimate and Penny Dreadful and had our traditional Halloween chili :)

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