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claws took on a spear-like
shape and pierced his chest, while the other struck him in the face, cutting
into much of his flesh and drawing blood.  It hurt like hell and even when it
recalled its limbs, Sam’s body was left with a feverish feeling.  He had lost half
of his health this time and now it was steadily decreasing even more.  There
was a constant buzzing sound in his ear, like some small object was dunked into
acid nearby.  That’s when he noticed that his own health bar display in the
upper left hand corner had the words POISONED over it in huge red letters. 
His health bar itself was deep purple now.
    “Great.  I’m going to die in the first few minutes of this
game.”
    And the worst part of it was that he knew it would hurt,
more than any pain he’d felt before.

5 Yesterday
    The previous day, 6:23pm.
    As Sam was pulling the large cola out of the grocery bag,
the cell phone that was also in his hand buzzed and somehow his useless hands
dropped both the cola and the phone.
    “I don’t even know how the hell I did that,” he said after a
long sigh.
    Sam cursed his horrid coordination, bad reflexes, horrible
luck, and whoever was calling him at the moment.  The cola was shaken, but he planned
on putting it in the fridge anyway and his phone was still in good shape
despite the horrible fall it took.  This day just wasn’t going well for him,
but it was just a microcosm of his life as a whole.
    Where was his life headed?  Suddenly, he didn’t know.  He
was feeling fine until his immature girlfriend had decided to break up with him
for the umpteenth time.  That wasn’t the bad part.  He was fine with removing
her from his life.  All she ever brought him was confusion and some
ridiculously high standards that even she didn’t understand.  He was at the
point now where even getting laid wasn’t worth dealing with her BS.  He would’ve
ended it soon himself if she hadn’t.
    The bad part about the whole breakup was her deciding to do
it over the phone while he was out grocery shopping even when he told her he’d
talk about it later once he got home.  She wouldn’t stop talking to let him get
a word in.  All he could do was listen to her yap about how much of a little
boy he was and how he needed to grow up and outgrow videogames.
    Not like it was his job to play the damn games.  Not like he
was using the cash from the jobs to further his art and design career.  Not
like he was making important contacts in the games industry with each and every
job that he worked.  No, he was simply wasting his time being a kid and not
pursuing a real career, whatever that meant.
    To a small degree, she was right, because he sat on the
phone and listened to her crap, like a good little boy, for over an hour whilst
angrily plodding through the store with his tiny basket.  The five items he’d
gathered by the end of the call did not warrant the hour-long stay roaming the
aisles.
    By the time he got home to his apartment, he was already
exhausted.  Today was supposed to be a good day.  He wanted a good start and a
good mood going into tomorrow’s gig since he counted on it being a fun one, but
of course she had to ruin it.
    He stared at his phone on the kitchen floor and waited for
it to stop ringing before he picked it up.  He had no desire to talk to Michelle
again, now or ever, so he put the phone on the table with the projector facing
downwards.  He first put up the cola and the rest of his groceries then put the
bags in the recycler under the counter.  He finally picked up his phone after
and checked to see who called, in case it wasn’t Michelle.  It was actually his
sister, Rui, who’d called, and was now calling right back.  He answered on the
first ring.
    “Hello.”
    “You’re too good to answer my first call now?” His sister
sounded like a pixie.  The phone couldn’t contain her crazy energy.  Her voice
came through so loud he had to move the phone away from his ear a