Passion for Perfection | Open Novella Contest 2019
**OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST LONG LIST ENTRANT**
Passion can be your distraction,
Success can be your fall,
But to have neither is to be broken,
It's better not to love at all.
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My name is Jane.
I have only one goal:
To succeed.
And yet as I watched my world burn,
I didn't fetch the water;
I fueled it further.
It caused me pain,
But I created it;
So I stood by it.
Little did I know,
I had to accept the truth;
that I had failed.
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"... This is hell,
but I planned it, I sawed it,
I nailed it, and I
will live in it until it kills me."
- ALAN DUGAN
"Love Song: I and Thou"
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RANKINGS
#49 - ONC
#30 - failure
TRIGGER WARNINGS
Mentions of abuse
Suicide attempt
Depressing thoughts
