The Beauty of Habituation |
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| Author:
| Sheppard, Troy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4936-3685-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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"The Beauty Of Habituation" is a collection of three stories by Troy Sheppard. "When I Get Free" is based on a journal kept by the author, who was incarcerated in the South Carolina Department of Corrections in 2008. Troy Sheppard was a homeless drug addict. In the depths of his addiction, he committed crimes that he would regret for the rest of his life. While incarcerated, his thoughts about what led him to prison are explored and examined in great detail. "All In My Head" tells the...
More Description"The Beauty Of Habituation" is a collection of three stories by Troy Sheppard. "When I Get Free" is based on a journal kept by the author, who was incarcerated in the South Carolina Department of Corrections in 2008. Troy Sheppard was a homeless drug addict. In the depths of his addiction, he committed crimes that he would regret for the rest of his life. While incarcerated, his thoughts about what led him to prison are explored and examined in great detail. "All In My Head" tells the story of Josh, a young morphine addict. A slave to drugs, he has nothing left to lose and searches for meaning in the worst days of his life. The desperation of his addiction has continued to progress to the point where he makes the decision to take his own life with an overdose of morphine. Barely surviving his attempt at suicide, he is sent to a drug treatment center where he meets a young man who was just like him at his age. The truth about his addiction is exposed and confronted, leaving Josh to make the most important decision of his life. "Idiosyncrasy" is a strange yet fascinating tale of addiction that's in a class of its own. Unable to find purpose and meaning in life, the cocky and drug-addicted Mark Shealy finds solace in surviving intentional drug overdoses. What began as an attempt to simply "get high" and escape has now transformed into a morbid fascination with death and pleasure. He eventually succumbs to the deadly practice and finds himself horribly helpless in an irreversible coma. He is completely aware but unable to communicate with the outside world. Facing certain death when his family decides to pull the plug, he slowly accepts his lonely fate and goes through a beautiful transformation that makes the book a tragic but poetic muse on drug addiction and suicide.