Metamorphosis

Reads 12
Votes 2
Parts 3
Time 27m

Reads 12
Votes 2
Parts 3
Time 27m

Mature

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"He was Ellen at school, Grian on paper but he was always Azalea to me."

A story about a teenage boy, facing the death of his highschool sweetheart accidentally gets caught up in an identity mix up. But how long can he pretend to be his beloved before people find out and how long can he keep in touch with his own identity before it becomes something so wrong. Sometimes things stick and they echo, they don't go away - it's best to leave some skeletons in the closet because once they come out you don't know what they might have to say.

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Tw: cannibalism, sh, depersonalisation, dissociation, descriptive gore, suicide themes/ideation, mentions of abuse, homophobia, descriptive episodes, grave robbing, whatever dressing up and kissing a corpses classified as, drowning, death, murder, bugs

Aka the author woke up and did his usual thing, ponder how far he could take this before people criticised its "taboo" nature.All Rights Reserved

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