Silently Sweetening; Silently Sickening

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Parts 7
Time 19m

Reads 241
Votes 15
Parts 7
Time 19m

Mature

and it was fading.
  
that memory, so cherished and loved.
  
and it was fading.
  
those bright flush-with-life dreams and bursting hopes.
  
and it was fading.
  
treasured sanity slipping into a bottomless black, a welcomless abyss. 
  
and it was fading.
  
that precarious grip on reality growing farther and farther away, unreachable. unattainable. 
  
and it was fading.
  
a grey-grey-grey line blended real and imagined. blurred with wet ink spots smeared across the thin, faint bar.
  
and it was fading.
  
  
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notes (an A/N may be posted at the end of the story, but that is debatable, and won't happen before then. All important info will henceforth be placed here and in updates on my feed):
  
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~Nox
  
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