It's not the alcohol... an Excerpt from Beer Club 3!

From my summer writing project.
The naps were getting more and more brutal. Time consuming. A sad reminder of the man he used to be but had forgotten over the last several years as he grew more and more into the mask of Vader and the cloak of Beer Master.

Am I wasting my time? How long can I stay at this and know that it’s worthless? Do I pull the finish line closer and drag down the organization with me?
Kyle was lost. Lost. Forever lost.
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Eugene sat back in his apartment, at a crossroads with his treatment. On the one hand, Alcohol was destroying his life and limiting his options. On the other, it wasn’t really the alcohol…it was the kind of people you hung out with when you drank. Sad, pathetic people who told the same stories over and over again, hanging out in bars or at the Country Club and wondering if everyone hated them..

Eugene was lost. Forever lost.

And it was at that precise moment when the two principal participants in our little drama came to realize the individual lostness and pointlessness of their own lives and their inability to escape them that a true game changer appeared…