Descent
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Ongoing, First published Oct 19, 2016
Mature
When everything goes wrong, how far will you fall? How much damage can a single unexpected event do? Does optimism survive contact with the world's trials? Or do optimists descend into the darkness?

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

This story was my entry to my university's literature contest. I would have made it into a full novel but alas, only short stories were allowed.
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