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Our Last Dance [ONC 2021]
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Complete, First published Feb 28, 2021
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/Entry Open Novella Contest 2021/

Ophelia is forced to live her life in pieces. After each year of her life, she dies, only to come back alive many years later, having lost everything of her past, except for her memories.

She has learned to live without any attachments, but what happens when she robs a mysterious stranger at the Venetian Carnival? And what happens when she meets him again in her next life, when he should have been dead for years?

Together, they try to find a solution to their problems in an adventure filled with mysteries, love, death and dancing. 

Can Ophelia find a way to stay alive for more than one year at a time? 

/Based on prompt 71: "This is our last dance, my dear." They said, to which you reply, "Then make it the best dance, my love."/
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[COMPLETE] "How can you live your life if you can't create new memories?" "How can I move forward when I'm stuck in the past?" "I know that the saddest moment is when a person who gave you the best memories, becomes a memory but I guess having no memories to treasure at all is the worst." It was just a normal love story until it happened. An unexpected death of an heir would bring an upside down on Leyra's life, a girl who suffered from anterograde amnesia-a rare type of amnesia in which a person can't form new memories- after an incident that'll changed her life forever. Will she find a way to know who murdered her fiancé despite of her condition or it will remain unsolved after she fall in love with another man? Find out what she finds out when she goes back to the place where it all started, and what mystery lies behind all of it. Unlock Leyra's game of life as she recall some of her past memories related to the heirs of Atticus and what she'll encounter to meet each one of them and may lead her to its killer. Would bringing back her past will just ruined her present? Or will her present ruined everything she knew from the past ? What will she choose? The love she remembers or the love she never knew existed? HIGHEST RANKING ✨ 🏅1st in Heirarchy 🏅1st in Secret messages 🏅1st in Codes 🏅2nd in Unsolved 🏅17th in Case GENRE: DARK ROMANCE | MYSTERY Disclaimer: This story is written in Filipino- English. READ FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY ON PLATFORMS LISTED ON MY BIO.

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