Bruises

Bruises
"Bruises" is a story by Dave Hoskin in the anthology Tales of the City edited by Philip Purser-Hallard for Obverse Books.

Synopsis
Being reborn in an immortal, indestructible and unharmable body is not a reward for everyone. There are members of humanity in the City of the Saved for whom their invulnerability is a curse, who seek out the most viceral experiences possible in the hope of finding something that they can feel beyond the cold indifference of an immortal life. Amongst those people is a man who has already died and been reborn, a man named Lazarus...