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• instinct •
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  • Reads 106
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  • Parts 4
  • Time 24m
Ongoing, First published Aug 08, 2016
Sawyer Jackson, the amazing child of Lilith and John Jackson, sibling to Clarke Jackson, fiancé to Nikki Ryerson and all around art prodigy. With five best selling fantasy novels by the age of twenty-two. 

And life is pretty good for Sawyer, sure it has ups and downs. Family drama, stress, emotions and memories Sawyer wants to erase altogether. 

They never thought they'd get their wish. 

Two months after Sawyer is kidnapped out of the blue they wake up in the hospital with no memory of who they are or what happened. 

But as they start to remember bits and pieces of their life, they soon realize that it isn't their memories that have been wiped, it's their ability to feel anything. 

Suddenly unable to understand emotion and connect to others, Sawyer is left fooling everyone around them. Even the people they love the most as they scramble to find out what exactly happened to them and why.


non-binary character included (they / them)
& slowish updates, only edited lightly.
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