Imagine you had no friends. No hopes, dreams or prospects for the future. You drift lazily from being awake to being asleep, while nothing happens in between. Your life is a blur of grey sludge that just seems endless. You don’t deserve friends. Now imagine if you will, what would happen if someone dangles the possibility of friendship right in front of you, the idea of being able to share the burden of being you, only to tear it away moments later, when he finds someone more suited to his needs. It’s a story about crippling loneliness and the effect it has on some people.

I wrote the story to combat the notion that violent video games actually make a person more prone to violence. I have played video games my entire life; most of them featuring bloody decapitations, dismemberment and other acts of extreme violence and have never hurt a fly. Having a desire to inflict harm upon others doesn’t count if you do not act upon it. So sit back, relax, and prepare to write a scathing post on your WordPress page about ‘how violence in modern media is corrupting our youth’, or better yet, just go straight to Fox News, save yourself the trouble. Dickhead.

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