TRAUMA DEAD STAY DEAD

Or Most Bits, Anyway

​by Byrum K. Bolerjack​

For Jackson, every day since the day he tried to forget was the same, and that’s the way he liked it. No relationships; no friends; no complications—just work. The emergency room fueled him and nursing kept his mind clear of the voices that bubbled with old trauma. Yep, everything in Jackson’s life was static. At least until a raving woman peppered with bullets flew in on a gurney. Until a claw from a nearly dead woman nicked his skin, drawing blood. Now, Jackson’s world didn’t make sense, his past wouldn’t stay where it belonged, and feeling raged through his body in the form of an alien voice in his head that wouldn’t shut up. Death hadn’t stayed dead. Jackson wasn’t just himself. Relationships beckoned with longing and threatened to reveal all the secrets he’d spent his life burying. Maybe Jackson was crazy, or maybe he was finally alive.

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