"I don't sleep. My mind has the scary capability of being dark and demented."
"You're afraid of your dreams?"
"Yes," he said quietly.
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When Jason was 5, he died. He was dead for 72 hours. And then he came back, still human, still able to die. No one but Jason knew why or how he came back. He had been murdered, and he swears up and down that the reaper told him;
"it isn't your time to die."
And that he came back that night.
Now, he is 17, he has barely slept since that day, till he met his guardian angel, with who he falls in love with. But with how little he has slept, he is nearing his death bed again, and the reaper might not save him again. Will he survive, or will he die?
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.
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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?
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