Condition Black

Condition Black is the state which your heart rate reaches 175 beats per minute, and strange things begin to happen to your body then. Your mind will get taken over by a primal fight-or-flight survival instinct and your ability to think straight deteriorates. Your blood vessels constricts and you'll lose the following: peripheral vision, depth perception, near vision, hearing. And you will have the ability to do things that a normal human body is not capable of doing. Military and law enforcement personnel train to avoid getting into the state of Condition Black for these reasons. I chose Condition Black as the title for this story due to a certain irony it contains. Without giving much of the story away, there is a certain character who isn't dead or undead, but neither is he fully alive. His state of Condition Black is much different in that sense, and throughout the story he fights a losing battle to avoid succumbing to that state and become completely submissive to the dark entity that has infected him.