Managing To Avoid Drowning
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Snake was still a hero, of course, but he was a man, too. Living in close quarters with him had quickly made it impossible to idealize him. He was someone who could do the impossible, could destroy a tank single-handedly, shoot down helicopters, and kill people with his bare hands.
But more often than that, he was just a man who left his ash trays overflowing and got grouchy without his endless packs of cigarettes, who hoarded flat piles of cardboard boxes under his bed, who ate too many cups of instant noodles, who complained like a child when he caught a cold, who always forgot to feed the chickens.
A man who woke up in his sleep trying to scream, but the sound wouldn’t come, and he only choked and gasped and reached out, like drowning, and Hal was what he clung to.
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- Part 1 of Managing To Avoid Drowning
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Snake ran to Alaska, where it was always winter and never really Christmas. Dead inside, and drinking to help himself stay that way.
It worked, for a while. The dogs helped. Dogs and snow and liquor and cigarettes, and a growing sense of dread and grief and, worse, overwhelming numbness that crept up on him slow and struck at the same time each year, whether he knew the date or not.
Written as a companion piece to "Not Drowning"
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- Part 2 of Managing To Avoid Drowning