My Drunken Past is Haunting Me

How I’m facing the ghost.

Danielle Emrey
5 min readAug 20, 2021
Photo by Camila Quintero Franco on Unsplash

The Phantom

It’s 1:30 in the morning, and I’m laying in bed: eyes maniacally open, brain going berserk, body restlessly tossing and turning.

Though it’s been over 22 months since I’ve last consumed alcohol, thoughts of my drinking continue to plague my mind (so do the alcohol induced side-effects on my…

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Danielle Emrey

English Lit Nerd. Reader. Writer. Ex-Lush. Oxford Comma Enthusiast.