Douglas sensed the air leaving him, the despair curdling into each part of his body as he registered the significance of the words he had been told. He felt the anguish arrive, piece by searing piece, to each vein, every muscle. The agony erupted, turning every bit of him to ash, to paralysis, to nothing.
I felt this kind of pain once. It was a "breakdown" that spread like little fires erupting in certain places on my body and then shifting to other places.
