CRAVE

Part I: Darius

The fluorescent lights flickered overhead, casting an eerie glow on the circle of mismatched chairs. Darius glanced around at the familiar faces—Jake, Roy, Alice, and Bryan. Friends was a strange way to describe the group. Friendship had brought them together once, but that was a lifetime ago. Before the accident. And now shared trauma bound them together like scars forming a single woven pattern across separate skins.