Title: Scumbag Billionaire
Author: Harper Kingsley
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The agony was proof positive that he was alive. It was a good thing. That’s what he tried to get himself to believe in his lucid moments. In the brief seconds and minutes when he formed actual thoughts and didn’t simply do.
There were stretches of time when he didn’t know why he even bothered. Heartbeat upon heartbeat of time when he had no idea where or when he was, the very concepts of beach and sand and sun made meaningless and unknown by a brain that was frying inside a skull covered by hair and sunburnt scalp.
This was death and dying. A complete transcendence of being.
He was on an impossible endless journey of unmaking, and if he reached the other side he would be reforged into something new.
Or he would unravel completely. And all the bits that made him him would catch fire and melt away, leaving only carbon residue. Unrecognizable and unrecognized, lamented by no one.
He would be like a smear on a water glass: wiped away.
.
Time had no meaning. There was only the distance between him and the shade.
He didn’t even know what he would do when he got there. How he would deal with his raw, burnt flesh. How he would alleviate the terrible and deadly thirst.
All he knew to do was crawl. It was endless forward momentum.
His eyes had gone dim and his ears were filled with a rushing sound that drowned out the sighs of the ocean. His heartbeat was a pendulum. A drumbeat. A vibration through his blood.
He was dying, but he was still alive. For now.
TBC…
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