Cyst Stories

'65 ROSES'- is a story told about a girl suffering from cystic fibrosis. At a young age her Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer and it is revealed her mother may soon pass. To make it through this tough time in life, she spends her time with the boy she loves. This narrative is placed throughout different 'parts'. I hope you enjoy !

Unseen Battles follows Klara, an 18-year-old Russian girl living with cystic fibrosis, as she faces a life-altering decision: to leave her home, family, and the boy she loves behind in Moscow for a chance at survival-a clinical trial in Toronto, Canada. Told in poetic, emotionally raw prose that alternates between Klara's and her boyfriend Daniil's perspectives, the novel explores the painful intersections of illness, love, and hope. As Klara isolates herself emotionally, battling depression, physical decline, and the guilt of being a burden, Daniil quietly chooses to follow her, putting his nursing studies and life in Russia on hold. In Canada, Klara's days are filled with hospital corridors, unsent letters, new faces like Mia, a girl with a prosthetic leg and her own quiet grief, and a growing sense that maybe survival isn't the same as living. While Nurse Rivera and other doctors care for her body, Klara begins to search for something deeper-faith, identity, purpose. Meanwhile, Daniil makes a quiet journey of his own. Packing the last of Klara's belongings, meeting her mother's eyes, carrying the weight of promises made in silence, he crosses a world to be with her-not knowing whether she'll let him in again. With every chapter, the novel unravels the hidden pain of young people fighting battles that can't always be seen. Through hospital rooms, handwritten notes, and fragile moments of connection, Unseen Battles is a story of survival-not just of the body, but of the soul.

"I'm not your typical hero." "Good. I don't want you to be." * A story in which two teenagers with two different illnesses find love in a very unlikely place and save each other from themselves.

Audrey has a genetic disorder called Cystic Fibrosis, also known as CF. If two people in the same room have CF they must stay six feet apart, or else they could catch each others bacteria through airways. Luckily she isn't in love with another CF patient, she's in love with her best friend whose been with her since they were kids, and even now to be her visitor in the hospital.