This is a #TeenFictionAnotherYearShortStory entry.
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Believe me, when adulting takes place, you forget your naïve little side instantly and are ready to fit yourself in the big boots.
But let's say, it's too soon for Olivia Dee.
For her, graduation was a ceremony, a consummation of all the misery and guilt she had had to bear, of which none whispered-and she finally had the chance to leave it all behind.
But the world's twisted, right?
What if...I say, she has to relive all her past memories--that nasty first kiss, to be labelled a troublemaker, to be accused of things she could never imagine ever doing? Sadly, this is not her decision to make.
A day after her graduation, she wakes up to face her senior year again. She knows that she had completed her education, she spends hours yelling about it on everyone's face. But at the end, she has to go to college again with one question--how does she even return back in time?
But this time, all she has to do is grapple with a recurring dream, try to eliminate all the dark spots in her senior year and find out the reason of this travel back in time. Yet one thing's for sure, she hasn't travelled back in time. I give you my word. I know.
There are numerous black-outs, sudden falls, chills, drama and a whole different system of cheating, drugs, revenge and a famous Queen sister, who is, mysteriously, now not famous at all.
Watch her swim and drown, as she struggles between her reality and to keep up with her past struggles again, literally. Meanwhile, there's one context she never understands:
Death undoes anything.
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Credit to @cattown_graphics
She is a real darling, and managed to present me this cover at a very short notice. I'm so grateful!
"I wish...time would just stop."
Sleeping has always been Xandra's getaway, but an impending vacation back to her hometown forces her to fully succumb into her mind. She has just been exhausted, working to the bone. And all she really wants is for time to stop, to let her rest for a while.
Until time starts to rewound.
Inside her treacherous mind, she meets a boy that introduced himself as a keeper of time. Time has stopped, he says. But when she wakes up why is it that time feels like it's running ever faster?
The boy too, was a familiar mystery. There's a constant something ticking at the back of Xandra's head, always present, never revealing itself. She knows who the boy was in her past, yet she doesn't. He tells her not to worry, but in her muddled mind she knows.
If she had been eleven years younger, she wouldn't have noticed it. The strange locks of hair, the blood under the trees, the house that crumbled around the edges.
And she remembers. Time hasn't stopped. It has been rewound.
And she needs to save the keeper of time. Miyo. Manasseh. Her friend.
But could she save someone who's already dead?
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AMAZING COVER BY: @-bellawrites
Psychological drama
TW: mentions of suicide, abuse, trauma.
Started: October 14, 2022
Ended: November 6, 2022
WORD COUNT: 25K