SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: "Medicated Goo", Continued

From the story collection "A Ghosthunter's Journal" (1999) by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

IV

The drugs in vogue when I was a kid were all soft - nothing addicting, nothing potentially lethal, nothing (like they have now) that could quickly make itself more important than any of the other life-drives. For me they were just like toys, preludes to real adulthood, and I didn't bother with them ...