PTSD
"no... that was just when you decided to leave purgatory for hell." little arcy said gently, and that gentleness broke the heart zerrex thought he'd lost long ago. "you died when you were just eight years old, didn't you? (mommy...)
Lucifer Part 8 - Trials and Tribulations
-he looked up at beth- i don't know if i told you this but, with b's curse he won't even go to purgatory. i'll go on ..
The Anvil of Dawn, Chapter 11: I Can't See, I Can't Breathe
The parasite that leeches upon the planet, upon life, sentencing the earth to endless purgatory. this was the world to come. the pair were not the only form of life, the beings of pure flesh and blood.
A kaotic auction
The vehicle was trying to tell him a mad story about doing donuts in the dust of the purgatory wasteland and how his driver was a lunatic who wouldn’t let it read out the local news.
Merry Christmas you Sack of Shit
For fucks sake most nights i punch my walls until my knuckles bleed just to assure myself that i am actually still breathing and not trapped in some purgatory hell hole."
After the “dead list” – I’m a deer
It might be purgatory. "damn telepathic spam! there are a lot of people in the ward who think they've died and gone to hell. ignore them." i looked at my hand. deer in hell didn't make much sense. "elk.
Midline Shift 35 - An Unconscious Truth
He felt nothing underneath, nothing above or below as if trapped within purgatory of the senses, his sight beyond reckoning as an infinite black overwhelmed him. _"james.
Kaleidoscope XII - Death and All Her Friends
Or... no, we can't be in purgatory..." sandy gave her son a whack to the side of the head. "you never could listen to me when i said important things. artemis, you are very much alive. now stop wasting time with silly questions."
Venom: Beautiful Killers. Part 20
In fact, she's out of purgatory and is coming back to work." "excellent. i was starting to miss her. where's she been all this time?" "forget it, man. if i told you, she'd kill me.
The Journal of Steven Bellman: Another sad tale from Silent Hill
You see, silent hill is purgatory. everyone that has ever died had to come here for judgment. this place is meant for no one to live on it. because so many people insist on doing it anyway, it really causes hell to flow over into this dimension."
Gallows Hearts
What the hell made him think he could drink so much this time and not suffer the usual purgatory? as he groaned a low sound in his throat it sent a rotten, cottony taste into his mouth, suggesting--merely suggesting--what he had poured into his stomach.
Enochian: Book 2, Chapter 1
Right now, we are in... neither purgatory or limbo, but a terrible place between hell and the world.