The Nightmare

The Nightmare

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After the day goes by, I always had something that I would do. If I had time of course. But, with this hobby of mine, I always could let my feelings go. I used to call my typewriter my best friend during The Vietnam War. I was always a writer. I don't know how I got into the damn war. Into the nightmare.
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A Vietnam veteran finds that 43 years after the war, it's getting harder and harder to control his thoughts, his actions. His memory scarred by the horrible events that occurred in that jungle, what seemed like a century ago. His brain puts his conscience on autopilot, and carries him off to his own personal hell. The stress is getting to him more and more in his older state, like he's dying more and more every time he flashes back to that dense forest, and is feeding the memory that kills him with his decaying state. He's afraid to sleep, afraid of being alone, for fear that it will consume him completely. It sometimes feels that all the possible happiness has left him, that he can no longer create good memories, only amplify the terrifying ones.

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