I am lost in a land of confusion. Part of my past is gone, and my future is as clear as mud. I am lost in a land of confusion. Part of my past is gone, and my future is as clear as mud.* * * The void was all. There was no sound, no up or down, no cold, no hot. Just … nothing. And yet, that darkness shuddered. Somehow, the black shroud of emptiness shook and twisted. It shook and twisted until it seemed as if it would break. Then it did and there was pain. A pain that reverberated across her entire body, like that time she was hit by a car while riding her bike on the sidewalk of a busy street. She’d been crossing a driveway when a car pulled out a little too far. She’d tumbled from her ride and landed on the asphalt barely a couple feet from the raging stream of metal and glass that was

