New Story – Thanatos
This is a story I wrote for a fiction workshop in Fall 2008. I felt that I was putting too much emphasis on plot in my writing while letting other aspects of it suffer, so I wrote this shorter piece about boxing with a focus on intense description. Let me know what you think:
Thanatos
Later, under sweaty sheets in a dim bedroom, a woman would ask me what it was like to kill a man. Not taking my eyes from the ceiling, I’d tell her it felt no different than breathing. But that’s later.
Adrenaline – the body’s natural defense mechanism. Afterburner fuel. When your mind perceives a life or death event, it sets off the red alert for your body. Your adrenal gland fires into action, pumping your brain, your blood, with the stuff. Juicing you up for what’s to come.
Fight or flight.
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