My Heart Forgets To Beat - Excerpt
Philip_Lee
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Philip_Lee
Complete, First published Jul 14, 2012
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My Heart Forgets To Beat - a bildungsroman 
 
As Oscar Wilde said “All bad poetry stems from genuine feeling,” no matter how good a verse be, the best yarn is always woolmarked “worse”.  
 
The poet Vaughan Thomas meets his Marx in a Welsh brothel, joins the Red Ragamuffins and chases the It Girl on a two-stroke motorbike. Until the worst thread no poetry can unpick, gets him knotted in Spain – the poets' war! 
 
"My Heart Forgets To Beat" is novel set in ragtime Liverpool, wallowing in history & politics, music & romance. Look out for more volumes in the series: “Leaves of the Poets”.
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141 parts Complete Mature

There used to be a time where the world feared Locatlie. This time was merely decades ago. They thought that the Locatlie family was untouchable, they couldn't come near anyone anymore after the War of hearts. But the people that lived through the War of Hearts got soft, they either died or forgot it happened in the first place. Their children got children and those children forgot whom they were dealing with. Nobody thought that anybody could compete with Queen Julia. The queen whom brought down nations. Until I came along. You think Julia had it rough? Pfft. Her life was a fucking cake walk compared to mine- but lets not get ahead of the story. Julia might be the queen that brought down the nations, but I was the one that made them beg for mercy while burned them all to the ground. Important information: You can read this story without reading the Locatlie series, but it will spoil the Locatlie series for you. If you like books that close off chapters and you like reading long stories, read the Locatlie series first. :) Warning: This story contains physical abuse, mental abuse and sexual abuse.

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