Status Updates From Along the Path of Torment

“When the Ambien runs out, I begin gobbling everything in my cabinet—Xanax, Vicodin, Percocet, Valium, and even a few stray Dilaudid and a lone tablet of Demerol.”

“I call Beatrice a few more times and keep getting her voicemail, so I chew three Ambien and sit crying on my futon until the blackness inside of me spills out into the world and swallows it whole.”

“Every time I open the door into the hallway waiting area, I want to kill myself.”