Desolate
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  • Parts 2
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Ongoing, First published Feb 13, 2020
Adjective
/ˈdɛs(ə)lət/
1. (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.

Just because someone looks happy doesn't mean they are, because even a white rose has a black shade shadow. 

-C.M.H

"I succumbed to the darkness as I fell into the watery abyss" 
- AJ

The life was Alex Jade was perfect. He had everything any man had ever desired and what every women craved. But beneath it all, lay a man whose forgotten past came back to haunt him. A revelation he never saw coming.
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