THE EMERCITY
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A concept: what is your biggest fear? Is it the irrational, sickening adrenaline you get when you flip on a rollercoaster ride, or the way your spine curls at the sight of a spider crawling up your thigh? Little phobias are existent, but the whole ear splintering experience of your gravest fear is far more extravagant, and what is that to you?
In a society built on phobias, avoiding the reality of life and death is inevitable. The adrenaline one receives from fear is far from the ordinary. Standing amongst a group of individuals that hold the same phobia as you, didn't 'aid' you. It conspicuously separated the strong from the weak.
They call them the aversions. The strong dislike or opposition their personality carried against their fear. Our world divided between the facts of reality and fantasy. Categorising people by levels of fear, due to exact proposal and experiences, we were taught to become the labels we were given.
Full of heartbreak, misled accusations and lovers that are bound to cross paths, this was Aurora Parker. An outcast, a misplaced soul, a mystery. Her fears were not exclusive to the world, nor herself. But with beffundlement, she had no idea what secrets hid in the Emercity.
We are the aversions,
We are, the Emercity.
RATED PG-14 FOR THE FOLLOWING:
GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, CRUDE LANGUAGE, ADULT CONTENT AND EXPLICIT INTIMACY SCENES.
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Published: 22/07/2018
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