Some writing we did just Now

[rawrOTD]

I know this belongs in the fiction section but i opened a thread and just started writing here, so I left it alot of the older members seem to think the fiction written by members has waned in the recent years I think if we all write short stories from the same world we can accomplish a greater body of work this thread can be for any short stories based in a loosely similar world feel free to add your own story to the thread,or comment on my story if you're pissed off that I placed this here I'll move it I wrote this in about an hour directly into the text box: On the same day I learned of the outbreak I saw for the first time someone die someone return from the dead and my own hands wielding the scythe. You never forget the first time you destroy a zombie by that point you still havent come to terms with the reality of the experience. The first time you kill a ghoul, its as if you are commiting murder. Ending a life. At least thats how it felt to me. now I look back at the experience with the knowledge that these creatures have no life in them. To clean them from the face of the earth is to cast their bodies into a fire that they will not feel. They are as cold as dead as the bullets we use to dispose of them. However, the guilt of killing struck me then there was a certain numbness in my face and hands I kept pushing on them trying to feel something real its a power all people have as perverse as it seems to take another's life and only those few who have managed to preserve their humanity they are the ones who feel each time they lowered the population by one, two , or three I suppose these people also did not survive but ... I envy them they never lost the souls that made us more than animals after the first murder, it was just surviving i dont even remember any of them killing someone bitten and screaming was just as mindless as killing the living dead i resent that similarity when both the death of a friend and the death of a ghoul add up to zero thats when we are zombies our bodies are intact but our minds have long since rotted away the bare instincts of animals just another twisted version of what we fight against the real humans, most of them anyway died defending not themselves or shelters or supplies but human decency the sanctity of human life The doctor he . he called it PTSD, but they havent had medications for that in a long long time hes says "While I am not a trained therapist, I can attempt several methods of cognitive behavior therapy. We'll see to those nightmares, and you'll meet others still having troubles. Alright? The most important thing for you to do right now is sleep, I'm going to give you a prescription for the only benzodiazepine left in manufacture. Now I know you have no recent history of drug usage, but I'm only giving you an Rx of 12 adult mg diazepam. Thats valium, do you understand?" He says my best hope is to write things down, that i have to cope with traumas. I dont think its working. - Robert Lord

[kortick]

that is a very pointy story still fondling the artichokes i see...

[rawrOTD]

oh yes of course also I know alot about PTSD only because I did a project on it in 9th grade and then everytime I get an assignment where I pick the topic I choose PTSD and turn in the same project with a little more research added in Ive done his about 4 times now maybe 5