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Life Flashes
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Complete, First published Jan 10, 2019
Nessa Weber is nineteen when she receives a life altering phone call in the middle of class, and she knows, in that moment, that she will never be the same. But that's not where her story begins. 

It started five years ago when her dying grandmother came to live with Nessa and her family. Little did she know, that event was the catalyst that set off a series of chain reactions: her mother falling into a deep and dark depression, her younger brother withdrawing and turning to alternative methods to soothe his troubled soul, and Nessa stepping up to care for the whole of her family. 

But was this also the catalyst for the phone call Nessa gets at nineteen? Only time will tell...


(uploading every Friday so that I don't feel sad looking at the whole finished story that nobody read lmao)
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