in which fate threatens to be the undoing of a star-crossed pair who dare to defy the rules of life and death

"and then it all went still." copyright © 2020 by aveirell

Ordeal is a fictional short story about the writer's process of seeking inspiration to write, and their struggle to decide what and how to write - all of this concatenated to the myth of the nine Greek muses and the art that justify the writer's existence.

If I were not to count myself; the boy who had played the most important role in the course of events, as they happened, was in fact Holden Winston. And he was also the one most affected by everything. All the things, no matter how insignificant placed invisible scars on his face. (Sadly, he was no Dorian Gray and there was no such thing as a magical painting.)

janus is not a god. tainted by vampiric dust and human blood, he's a two faced creature plagued by destructive tendencies and damned by "tradition." a young boy could be his only salvation, that is if the boy resists falling under demonic control.