Fantasy Or Reality?
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Last published Wed, Dec 14, 2016
April Anderson developed schizophrenia as she became a teenager. She became less focused on school, stopped taking care of herself, became distant/antisocial. She feels hopeless. She's stuck in the machine of society. One day, she hears something...a boy her age trying to get her attention. They quickly become best (and only) friends. They learn each other's deepest thoughts and it becomes Nathan's goal to do everything he can for April. He can't bare to see his only friend so hopeless. What will they uncover about their town...and each other?
Note: (Their relationship is up to reader interpretation. 😁)
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(DISCONTINUED) I walked all the way to the park. I waited every day for at least thirty minutes. I walked back my confidence withering. Every. Single. Time. I was tired of waiting, I had my hopes up for way too long. One more walk, one more wait. He will be there. And he was. Lost on the path of not only life but her own decisions, Harlow Swan takes a chance to find her long lost friend, or crush, should I say. Meeting up with him again after two years, she realizes that maybe life wasn't so bad after all, and maybe there were some things that weren't as horrible as she thought. But not long after, things begin to go downhill, and her hopes begin to crumble. Harlow thinks that maybe once she's put her life back together, along with her hope, maybe everything would be normal again. But maybe everything wasn't meant to be normal, maybe it was all meant to be awful and way too truthful for her liking. It isn't just any normal story, after all; it's hers.
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