Black Ocean

by, Melissa R. Mendelson

 

Numbness is a blessing found deep within the bottle.  It absorbs all your pain, your frustration.  Life evaporates, and you drift away.  Darkness then awakens and lashes out like a hand raised so fast and slammed down hard against the one you loved.  Oblivion slips away, and anger grows fierce, determined to stay.  Nothing mattered.  Nobody mattered until the bottle finally rolls away, releasing a world that tried to bring you back.