Synopsis for Untitled Book in Progress

Dark Humored, Fictional Story in Diary Format

Judith Rocha
A forgetful bank teller who broods over not understanding what she is living, detached from a personal appreciation for life, decides to resolve the issue by committing suicide. She begins paying off credit card debts, heavily downgrades her lifestyle to suit her wages more appropriately and opens a savings account for her funeral expenses. To keep her tendency of missing due dates from foiling her payment plans, she begins journaling daily activities. In the process, she records tormenting dreams and writes them alongside the story of her death wish:

"It is as though there was a plane crash, but there are no pieces of craft around to hold on to. I'm left trying to stay afloat the waves and I can hardly survive a steady pool. All I can imagine is my dead corpse floating. There is no land in sight. Instead, empty beer cans and miscellaneous garbage from the kitchen encircle me. I start to sink, the water is freezing but it feels refreshing reminiscent of resting in the sun, salty with a soft breeze on a Mediterranean shore. My lungs feel heavy and I am so scared that I stop trying to gasp for air. I start to feel light headed from holding my breath. It's an impulse to avoid choking on the water. As though my mind enters a trance overwhelming all thought and capacity to act, I feel myself rising and tearing above the water and I rapidly ascend further and faster from the endless ocean until I wake up with what seems like a goddamn hangover. It's a horrible feeling not knowing whether I lived or died."

The plot twists and turns to conclude with an ultimatum on her life condition: to find its meaning within written memories.

Published by Judith Rocha

I currently live in California's central valley, where I work and go to school.  View profile

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