Amira knows the drill.
She knows exactly how her life is supposed to follow: finish A-Levels, attend University and graduate with a medicine degree, get married by a boy her parents choose. She's had this life plan engraved in her mind, always haunting her.
Melissa knows the drill.
She knows how deeply, and completely, she is in love with Amira. She knows her feelings aren't wrong, or a phase, but she also knows they have to hide.
Every part of their friendship, their forbidden love, they have to hide.
Until they can no longer hide it.
The two girls are constantly tested on the relationship, always pushed to the limits and finally, they push back.
What happens when two girls who completely, utterly, love each other but it's never going to work out?
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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