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These are my entries for the Flumptober challenge hosted by @LuckyBugBooks! I'll be doing my best to complete the prompt for each day, and all of...
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flumptober day nine : "Don't Go"
happy (and belated) 2023! i hope that you are all having a wonderful year so far! if you've been following my posts at all, then you know that things have been really crazy, and that it's been an extremely difficult season for both my family and i. with this in mind, i have decided to keep these oneshots coming and continue writing, even though it's well past october. my hope is that you will still be able to enjoy them, and that this will give me the chance to keep up with writing while i don't have the mental energy or inspiration for my other books.
i have joked that this is the oneshot that finally made me change the rating for this book, and that's definitely true. this was written in a darker season of my life, while i was very much still struggling with grief after losing my grandfather and with feeling very discouraged and alone during some difficult family situations that we have had going on. this is reflected in the oneshot that i have written and posted below, which focuses on two characters as they struggle with grief and hurt after a loss of their own.
be warned as you go into this oneshot that it is much darker and sadder than the things that i usually write. it was therapeutic to be able to write for these characters, to share something in common with them and deal with my own grief alongside them, but as a result, this is very heavy. please be cautious as you head into this- as i said, it's one of the main reasons that i decided to change the rating of this book.
between the more mature content of this oneshot and others that i have either written or plan to write, i felt like my decision to have this book marked as mature is the best option. these types of things need to be shared, and it's my hope that these oneshots will be an encouragement or an inspiration to you, but i don't want to send them out to be read without the necessary warnings beforehand.
a detailed list of trigger warnings has been provided below, and i would encourage you that if this is too much for you to read right now, then please click away and find something else to read. your health is much more important to me than reads and votes. take care of yourself. <3
trigger warnings : aftermath of a main character's death, grieving, hurt, guilt, underage drinking, references to alcohol, isolation, mild language (all censored, but there's a lot more here than i would usually include), one character verbally lashing out at the other in their anger, hopelessness, emotional distress, mentions of and discussions of death, brief mention of past t/rture (o), bad memories, anxiety, mentions of therapy and rehab, brief mentions of bl//d (oo) as the result of an injury, an overall theme of characters struggling with the loss of a loved one.
(this is definitely the heaviest, darkest oneshot yet (one of the darkest things i've ever written, to be honest), so i completely understand if this is not your cup of tea. the oneshot does have a hopeful ending, the focus is more about the characters bonding over their loss and being there for each other, and most of the things above are not written about explicitly or dwelt upon for the entirety of the oneshot- but do be aware that they are all still there. stay safe! <3)
