“ Hearing voices may or may not be associated with a mental health problem .” “ Hearing voices can come from lack of sleep , extreme hunger , or as a result of recreational or prescribed drugs .” “ Hearing voices is the most common hallucination in people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia .” “ Hearing voices , seeing visions , or similar sensory experiences occur within somewhere between 3 % and 10 % of the population , and around 75 % of the population will experience at least a singular episode in their lifetime , such as hearing their name called .”
I resolved to make an appointment with a psychiatrist . But everyday I pushed it off . Maybe the problem would just go away . Maybe this was just a discrete , never-to-be-repeated , little blip of lunacy . But the noise only got louder , the Voices coming into sharper focus .
I decided I needed to hear what they were saying . The shed was quiet , but there was still too much ambient noise . I drove far out past the city , deep into the desert . Out where sound was just as barren as the landscape . I turned the car off , walked outside a few paces , then plugged my ears .
I heard Them alright …
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Matt Enright worked as a screenplay analyst for a number of years before he turned to fiction writing . His love for narrative is what brought him to write short fiction . Being relatively new to fiction writing , this is his first publication as a professional author .
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