Gradually, I begin to think rationally. I need to figure out the situation, understand what happened. I crouch down slightly and walk along the row of capsules, hoping to see at least one open here, but in reality trying...

  The Far Side of Pain   The vortex of pain does have a bottom. True, after you reach oblivion, skin shredded, bloody, and lying in a pool of anguish, there comes a calm, a realization you have been reduced, and relief is found in the jab of a...