playing in the gray 

(phrase) Name given to the activity of injecting heroin or perhaps fentanyl laced heroin where more than likely someone will overdose , lose consciousness, and will be in critical need of some type of intervention by others so that they might be brought back from the shadows of death and/or the spirit world. To become acquainted with such dangerous activity often includes a resurrectionist, who oftentimes is successful in bringing life back to the dying. The phrase gets its title from the color that the skin turns of those who have overdosed and are dying moments before they are returned to the land of the living.

Tabby, Toby, and Timmy got back to the crib with some decent H, flavored with a generous enough amount of fentanyl in it as well, certain to bring its host past the threshold of death…..so that all got their gear together and got to work. Turned out that Timmy got his in first cause he was the first to go down like deadweight, slobbering in such a way to scare those unacquainted with the game these friends were playing. Putting each other’s lives in the others’s hands this trip were playing in the gray and each one of them knew what the others looked like as they lay on death’s doorstep. Very scary to many of us tweekers.

playing in the gray by Nikki Stixx July 19, 2022