the last time i saw you
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Last published Sat, Mar 14, 2026
Sixteen-year-old Catalina Halloway thought her story ended the night she jumped from that bridge. Instead, she wakes three months earlier-alive, unbroken, and trapped in a world she'd left behind long ago. Her suicide note has vanished. Her family remembers nothing. And yet Catalina knows one thing for certain: if she does nothing, her path will lead back to the same inevitable end.
Determined to rewrite the ending, Catalina digs into the lies surrounding her quaint little town and all its people. Logan, the boy who ruined her. Grayson, the one who let it all happen. And the ghosts from her past- those who never really left.
But the more Catalina tries to alter the story, the more the story seems to alter her. Each choice she makes leads her down another path, unraveling not just the town's secrets but the thing she fears most. The monster in her mind.
Because Catalina is learning the hardest truth of all-sometimes you're not the hero of the story. Sometimes you're the villain.
i didn't have it in myself to go with grace, and so the battleships will sink beneath the waves
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