Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror

by Mark Matthews

Gravedust had always been an escape and Guillermo knew it, but he also knew that most people wouldn’t even think about touching it if the world around them didn’t push them to do so, if it didn’t give them plenty of reasons to want to escape. As someone who depended on a chemical to cope with his miserable life, Guillermo had accepted a long time ago that those responsible for creating the elements that shaped his life were always the first one to call him a junkie and the last one to accept the role they’d played in his addiction.

“You love hard when you love, don’t you?” she said to me just last night. “Find what you love and let it kill you,” I quoted Bukowski.