Half of Me is Missing

“I don’t belong here. I am not like the others. We don’t look the same. How did I get here? I don’t deserve to suffer in a place where I should not be. I can’t understand it! Help me, help me, help me! I can’t go on any longer. I would rather be dead than in these circumstances! Half of me is missing!”

The perplexing and intriguing story of Jasmine is told as seen through the eyes of her psychiatrist, Dr. Engels. Delving into her story, he attempts to determine the reason and the cause for her aberrational thoughts and feelings. Although he desperately wants to help his pleading patient, he begins to realize the overwhelming extent of her multiple psychiatric disorders. Slowly, he concludes that he is being drawn into her darkness as he is deluded that she can be helped.

As Dr. Engels fights the provocative and seductive manner of Jasmine, he finds it overwhelming. He finds himself wanting desperately to bask in her light as he is tempted to succumb to her charms. Recognizing that he must avoid her temptations, he begins to pursue the truth as he unravels her paralyzing anguish.

Soon, Jasmine is immersed in a profession where she can act on her frustrations in a most unseemly way. Portraying a semblance of innocence, she soon leaves a path of bodies littering her trail. No one in her periphery is wise to her murderous machinations because she is cunning enough to leave no traces. She smiles sweetly as she continues doing what she must as she searches without pause for her true identity.

Soon Dr. Engels comes to the horrifying conclusion that Jasmine may have psychopathic tendencies, as well as her other psychiatric problems, finding her to be narcissistic and without feeling and compassion. But he has no idea what he might encounter along the way as he travels the hazardous and tortuous result of his journey to find the truth. As he becomes more and more captivated and enamored by her deep issues, he begins to wonder whether he should pursue the challenge. Becoming enveloped in her bizarre delusions, he ignores the cold chill of fear and trepidation coursing down his body.

Slowly Jasmine begins to confide in Dr. Engels that she wants to pursue a career which will afford her access to many victims. He has no doubt that she can achieve her projected goal but becomes frantic to change her course as he discovers the depth of darkness hidden in her soul which will eventually destroy them both. Jasmine begins to hint at the fact that she may assist those in desperate straits to meet their maker a little bit sooner than they would otherwise.

Despite the psychiatrist’s attempt to change her trajectory from her deadly pursuits, she insists that she will not be deterred from this course, reasoning that she wants to be in power and control in order to obtain wealth and prominence “so that I can pursue my quest to find my missing half. Exploring all aspects of the human condition may help me to find the answers to my dilemma.”

An appalled Dr. Engels realizes that due to confidentiality, he will be unable to warn others of her tendencies unless she confides a definite plan to kill someone. He knows that if she tells him she killed someone after the fact, he cannot communicate this to anyone.

The suspense mounts to a conclusion that is not only shocking but unexpected. Use your imagination to follow the twists and turns down Jasmine’s hazardous path of scattered carcasses as she finally finds out why “half of me is missing!”