The Tale They Tell
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  • Reads 126
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  • Parts 4
  • Time 12m
Ongoing, First published Mar 06, 2014
I am not dead, yet not alive. I can breathe, yet my lungs are void. I can see, yet I can not feel. I can close my eyes, yet I can not sleep. I am the ashes of a burnt out passion. I am the shreds of a once beating heart. I am everything he's not, yet he's everything that I am. I am everything that he needn't, yet he is everything that I need. It is he who's destined to bring me back from the dead, and it is me who's fated to rob him of his soul...
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Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can. ***** It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living? [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]]