when a writer dies

Jade built her life twice.

First as an athlete. Then as a writer.

But for six years she has been struggling to finish her most popular novel, A Thing of The Past. Not from lack of ideas nor poor time management, but of something she cannot name and cannot explain herself.

With years of promises behind her, publishers still asking, and readers still waiting, the pressure to complete it only grows. Slowly, the story stops feeling like just a book. It became a measure of who she is and who she is no longer sure she can be.

And as the silence between her and the page grows longer, Jade begins to wonder not how the story ends...

but what remains of a writer when she can no longer write.

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Genre: Slice-of-life, Short Story, Psychological
Language: English
Status: 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲
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