Sort of Dead

By RaghavBhatia7

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**This book features short, fun, snappy chapters** **Perfectly fine as a standalone** [Caution: may pack a co... More

PREFACE
1 - Story of My Stupid, Cursed Life
2 - How I Embarrassed Myself In Middle School
3 - How I First Met A Spirit
4 - How I Was First Born Dead And How I First Died
5 - Whishy-washy
6 - Hating What You Love
8 - They Didn't Tell Me
9 - Bye-Bye, Good Life
10 - This Sucks
11 - Friendship?
12 - You Are So Very Dead, New Kid
13 - Detention And After Detention (Kill me, Please)
14 - I Die In This One (Sigh)
15 - My Side Of The Story
16 - Life And Death
17 - The Walking Undead
18 - You Better
19 - How I First Met A Spirit (Part Two)
20 - Theatricals Can Be Fun!
21 - No . . .
22 - Dead, Sort of
23 - Bogs And Moons
24 - Songs Of Jet-Lag, Trepidation And Madness
25 - Two Birthdays
26 - It's Party Time (Humans Not Allowed)!
27 - It's Hard To Name This Chapter
28 - Hail The Coven (Bloodbath Part One)
29 - The Spray-Club Exorcism (Bloodbath Part Two)
30 - Blood, Blood Everywhere (And All The Drops He Drank)
31 - Will Someone Please Tell Me What's Going On?
32 - Gung Ho On Going Ballistic
33 - The Big, Bad, Lying Liar
34 - You're Telling Me Now?!
35 - Uncle Om's Secretive Tone
36 - Cue The Dramatic Score
37 - Aftermath (Do The Math)
38 - An Idiosyncratic, Foolhardy Plan Is Our Last Chance
39 - We Are All Set?
40 - Even I Don't Know What Happens Next
41 - The Girliest Animal That Ever Girled
42 - Homework: A Question For The Ages
43 - Blindfolds, Trees, And Stranger Things
44 - By The Lakeside
45 - For The Love Of Blood, Just Move It!
46 - A Little Magic In Our Lives
47 - Stones Are Bombs And Lizard-Heads Are Fast?
48 - Dear Reader, We Are Doomed
49 - A Rabbit, An Eddy, Or The Vortex Of Death?
50 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
51 - Erm, Excuse Me?
52 - City Of A Hundred Haunts
53 - Lakoswa-boggle-gobble-whatchamallik
54 - Mr. Cellomann's Sweet Sweetshop
55 - Sealing The Deal With The Muscular Guy
56 - Moral Of The Story: I Can't Swim For The Life Of Me
57 - Freddy Krueger On Steroids
58 - Dolls Drive Carriages
59 - No Sweat
60 - Vampire, Survivor, Same Thing
61 - The Coven Thirteen
62 - Waking Up
63 - Trip Down Memory Lane
64 - A Double-Zipped Bag Full Of Secrets
65 - The Illegitimate Son
66 - Kryptonite And Warnings
67 - Sleep
68 - Her Wickedness's Ballroom
69 - Tears In A Cage
70 - Hope In Humming
71 - Old Ghosts, Past Mistakes
72 - Nice To Win One
73 - See See
74 - Licks Or Locks
75 - Roughly At The Speed Of Light
76 - All In Favor
77 - Rainbow Rest
78 - Family.
79 - Dark Flames, Burning Flesh
80 - So Not The Void
81 - Linger On, Twitch
82 - A Counterpoint
83 - We Are One, And One Are We
84 - Extra Limbs And No Thirst
85 - Ridiculous, Honestly
86 - The Return Journey
87 - Fare Thee Well
Bonus Chapter: That's the Spirit!

7 - How Life Won't Let Me Live In Peace

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By RaghavBhatia7

Well, I'll be the first to admit things didn't immediately transcend into the worse territory.

If I were to draw a graph between the time duration from whence I encountered the blood-donation camp through the time I reached at my uncle's and spent time there till the time I left (which was in a terrible hurry, you'll see) against a meter of how well things were going - the graph would go somewhat this way.

Like, say the X-axis is the time duration and the Y-axis is the level of wellness of the situation.

The graph started off from zero, went linearly into the negative Y from whence the blood-camp scenario entered the frame and then goes back up as time goes by at my Uncle's to become stable at zero-level again - but, when comes the time to leave my Uncle's, the graph takes a steep dive into the abyss of the negative Y.

Okay, maybe that wasn't such a good description. I'm not all that good at math. I'm more of a literature buff myself. But you dig the idea, right?

Never mind, you're about to find out.

So. I reach my Uncle's. Right. Bushed as any superhero after saving the day for the umpteenth time. Or you could say as tired as any supervillain done doing his villainy things for the day (or night, or whatever). Doesn't matter. I dunno, I'm droning right now, that's how draggled this whole things has left me.

(You see, the jet just underwent giddying turbulence and I feel like throwing up.)

(How, O, how are we going to reach to the present at this pace? But my Uncle tells me it's a long journey, so we can try.)

Relax, Mar. Calm down. Now tell them what all happened.

Right.

I reached my Uncle's finally, found him absent from his mansion. His manservant informed me he had gone for some "important business." I knew my Uncle was an industrious man, being the head of this mining corporation called {Undisclosed, sorry}. That's how he had so much money and such a mammothic house.

Therefore I shrugged my way to his yard, like any sensible person is obliged to. Es joined me a while later. 'Done watching the show already?' I teased her.

She said it was interesting to watch the extraction and yada yada yada. All this "bloody" talk made me realize how parched my throat was and how that might be part of the reason I was feeling so sulky. I ordered a cold-drink - a lot of cold-drink - and started feeling a little better.

When you don't have death to worry about, there's a lot of things you can enjoy without being too wary.

Cool, right? Don't you presume.

Now I finally started feeling a shade better and began to forget the blood - and of course the universe won't have that and everything went downhill from here.

I know pink butterflies don't exist. Es chasing them is a set-up for a future plot-point. Almost everything you read has a purpose, so chill out and enjoy, my dear readers and friends.

I love constructive criticism and appreciation (wherever I deserve either), so -:

Don't leave without voting and commenting, guys!

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