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    The Nightmare of Life-Ch. 1 http://www.gaiaonline.com/arena/writing/fiction/vote/entry_id=101030791#title


    The Nightmare of Life-Ch. 2
    http://gaiaonline.com/arena/writing/fiction/vote/?entry_id=101033423#title


    The Nightmare of Life-Ch. 3
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    The Nightmare of Life-Ch. 4
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    The Nightmare of Life-Ch. 5
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    ~Flash Back~


    Have you ever imagined what it might be like to have to experience the harshness and reality of the world at the age of 6? You had hardly gone through school, you didn't know what one plus one equals, and you didn't know which one came first in the alphabet, A or B.

    If you could imagine that, clearly, then you are imagining Jimmy's new life in the new world.

    How would he start? He knew far too well that going back into his house was equal to commiting suicide. He was intelligent enough to deduct that much.

    Jimmy limped off from his porch, grasping onto his side, and coughing incessantly.

    "Young lad, are you quite all right?" a voice behind him sounded once he had trudged on for about 10 minutes. Jimmy turned his head. A man in a top hat was rushing towards him, and clasped his hands on his shoulder.

    "My God...What in Heaven's name happened to you? You look as though you had just wrestled with a badger!" Well, he wasn't too far off.

    "A badger...huh...No...my parents...They...they hurt me bad."

    "Well, I can't sustain that sort of thing! Where do they live?" Poor Jimmy thought for a minute, and then replied hopelessly,

    "I-I don't know."

    "What's your name, then?" the man tried. Again, Jimmy thought, and replied,

    "Ji-Jimmy Coosicks, sir."

    "Well, we will get the records of your parents, and find them from there. I'll make sure that these scandolous enemies of society are sent to where they belong! Prison!"

    "You're not really sending my parents there...are you?"

    "Of course I am. They are criminals, they abused you, and prison is exactly what they deserve and that's exactly where they shall go!" A sharp pain suddenly reverberated in Jimmy's body, and he collapsed, grunting with pain.

    "Lad! Are you all right?" And that's all he heard before he fainted right on the ground.