Strain
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Last published Sun, Jul 27, 2014
Stories end how they start. Sadly, this one starts with a funeral.
Noah Dastern suffers from a rare mental disorder. One that prevents him from feeling physical, and sometimes, emotional pain. The disorder's effects increasingly get worse over time, leaving him only a short time of sanity, unless he is able to overcome it. He soon learns that he can't do it alone and lets Andy in. A boy he has become close too, and feels that something more is happening between them. But he soon remembers why he blocked so many off, because he could hurt them.
Noah must make the decision to let Andy in and help him get better, or to promise him a happy life free of the plague of hurt and distrust that Noah drags around with him.
As they get closer, Noah falls into a world of utter insanity and madness. A world where he can't tell right from wrong. If murder is okay. A world with no morals, that could destroy him, and all those who have learned to love him, including Andy.
What hurts most when pain is absent? What hurts you?
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