The Show Must Go On
- Reads 9
- Votes 1
- Parts 1
Ongoing<5 mins
Last published Mon, Nov 2, 2015
"I'm sorry to inform you... Alex, you have cancer."
Alexander Ross has just graduated. He got a good job, purchased his own apartment, his parents gave him a car, and he's going steady with a great girl. In other words, his life is just beginning, with a great start.
Until he finds out it's not only the beginning. It's the beginning of the end.
He has lung cancer. Most people with it don't live for more than 5 years with chemotherapy. Can he last that long? What if he doesn't?
What if the show can't go on?
All Rights Reserved
#37
adversity
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
For The Next Thirty Seconds ✓
**editing ((: "How many sets of thirty seconds are in a day?" "My rough estimate?" "Sure." "About three thousand." "Oh." "Yeah." • 19 year-old Jack's life has been one traumatic event after the next. So, being diagnosed with small cell lung cancer was just icing on the cake. With a survival rate of 14 percent and a life expectancy of 4 months, Jack does all he knows how to do: he runs. 18 year-old Lane's life has just been turned upside down. After finding out her sister's engaged to her childhood best friend, she doesn't think it could get any worse... until she finds out her happily-married parents of 24 years are getting a divorce. She can't stand even being in the same room as one of her family members, so she does something she's never done before: she runs. The Big Apple has never seemed so small. At least, not to Jack and Lane, not when they were next to each other. Nothing seemed too big. Side by side, they could conquer the world. They could fly. But, if the world decides to fight back, whose to say they won't fall, instead? 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴.Complete
The Art of Starting Over
Have you ever sunk so low that you actually felt relieved, knowing that it couldn't possibly get any worse? Well, I have... Many times. I lost everything. My family, my future, my home... I swore I would never depend on anyone ever again. And he swore nothing will ever tie him down. He told me he has ghosts. I told him I have fears. We agreed. We were eachother's impending death. And yet I fell for him, slowly and deeply, until I didn't know how to be without him. And he fed on me, gently and steadily, until he didn't know how to let me go. They said he'll never stay. Yet, here he is. I said my heart will never break. Yet, here I am. My name is Alison Lewis, and all I want is to start over. #thewattys2021 Shortlist and #FEATURED on Wattpad Chicklit, New Adult, Romance and Psychological Novel #official reading lists.Complete
The cancer (HamLiza) {COMPLETED}
Alex had the best life he could ever ask for, good friends, family and a beautiful girlfriend but when he discovers that his girlfriend has cancer everything starts falling apart, there's only one question in the air, will she survive?Complete
Fighting for a Life
[An All Time Low short story] Elliot was always the girl who hated lying to her friends, but as illness strikes, that seems to be all she can do. It's for the better, she tells herself. But when things begin to get worse, she realizes she'll have to come clean. She needs courage to tell them what they need to know, yet what they'll never want to hear. She needs bravery to face her death with no regrets. And she desperately wants the love of Alex Gaskarth before her final days are over. Will she be able to gather her courage and bravery, and win the love of Alex before it's all over? Only time will tell.Complete
In order to survive
Alex wasn't really special, he was just like every normal young adult in their early twenties. He worked as a cashier in a grocery store and somehow managed to make a living in a small apartment. He mostly games to pass his days and nights, so it was safe to say his family wasn't all that proud of him. But will his life remain so normal when he suddenly finds himself standing as one of the last humans on their planet? Will his life remain boring when he finds out about hybrids, mystical beings, and magic? Will his life remain safe when more than half of the hybrids and magical humans have it out to kill the human species, people like himself? And when he finds allies who help him along the way in finding the solution to saving the human race, will everything truly go the way he wishes? Let's see.
Tumor Love
Sometimes life don't go the way we planned. Sometimes we end up feeling so low, and alone. Like we're in a dark hole with no one around us, but then suddenly there's a light at the end of the tunnel. And I guess what I'm trying to say is.. You're my light, the one who helped me through the worst time in my life - And for that, I am thankful. I'm thankful that I met you, but I also hate you. I hate what you did to me, because you made me fall in love.. And then my world fell apart once again. [WARNING!! Contains mature themes, and languageComplete
I hate you (Thomas JeffersonXAlexander Hamilton)
Y'all ready for a cheezy ass summary?! Because I'm not. ---- Basically it's a modern Hamilton/Jamilton AU (wow. much original). Thomas and Alexander are roommates and Thomas gets lung cancer and shit happens. It's an emotional roller coaster so have fun. ---- I was really tempted to write something like: *insert depressing/dramatic music* What will happen when Alexander finds out his roommate and worst enemy had *pause for dramatic effect* lung cancer. *audience gasps* I am so sorry.Complete
Love,Hope,and Cancer
In this story you will fall in love with Rachel Hernandez and Alex Reed. Not only them but their weird,and unfortunate love story. Rachel Hernandez and Alex Reed have known each other their whole lives. They've been to elementary, middle, and highschool together. Rachel has been in love with Alex her whole life, and dreams for him to realize that she's the girl for him. Unfortunately for Rachel, that's all cut short when she finds out she's been diagnosed with cancer. Now her only dream is to live her life before she dies. Alex is oblivious to not only Rachel's feelings for him, but his own feelings for her.their whole life. When he found out that she was diagnosed, the first thing he did was stop everything and drive to the hospital, only for Rachel to ask him the ULTIMATE question. "Will you take my virginity? " His response will not only lead to sex, but love, lies, and heartbreak. The only question is Will she live in the endComplete
**editing ((: "How many sets of thirty seconds are in a day?" "My rough estimate?" "Sure." "About three thousand." "Oh." "Yeah." • 19 year-old Jack's life has been one traumatic event after the next. So, being diagnosed with small cell lung cancer was just icing on the cake. With a survival rate of 14 percent and a life expectancy of 4 months, Jack does all he knows how to do: he runs. 18 year-old Lane's life has just been turned upside down. After finding out her sister's engaged to her childhood best friend, she doesn't think it could get any worse... until she finds out her happily-married parents of 24 years are getting a divorce. She can't stand even being in the same room as one of her family members, so she does something she's never done before: she runs. The Big Apple has never seemed so small. At least, not to Jack and Lane, not when they were next to each other. Nothing seemed too big. Side by side, they could conquer the world. They could fly. But, if the world decides to fight back, whose to say they won't fall, instead? 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴.
More detailsContent Guidelines