Mercy, Love, and Other Useless Things
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Last published Thu, Mar 5, 2020
"When you grow up in a world void of colours you find beauty in other details. The intricacy of a design or the feeling the scene gives off. The dull world is one that so many reside in because there are so many people that don't meet the person that colours the world in a split second. There were times as a child that Oliver even doubted that a single look could blossom the colours around him. It sounded like a fairy tale. So he grew up believing the hues of gray were the only ones of which he'd ever see. He was okay with that.
That was until he met him."
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This is in no way the finished product, it is merely the drafted version that i wanted to upload to see if people liked the story. It started out as a stupid short story but has now turned into a full on novella and I want to continue it and, hopefully, finish it. Thank you for your support!!
This is something I've been working on for weeks, it's not finished quite yet and there's still some editing I need to do to fix it and get it right, but I hope it's still entertaining to read. I would appreciate any comments you'd give, I really need the feedback. There are parts that are cringy, I know, I was really just aiming for the "angst" factor and adding more plot, I didn't want it to be so cut and dry, that would be boring. Besides, I wanted to use some of the cringy parts to flesh out the character's relationships.
And yes, I know a lot of it is overdramatic and really... bad, but it's fun to write so I'm essentially going to leave it alone until I start hating it.
Oh, and the character Noah, I really meant to implement him more, so I may have to go back and add him more, along with Jessica and Alex's siblings, so there will be edits in the future with new scenes and more character development for those characters because I feel they deserve it.
Thank you!!
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