i’m not dead and i promise it’s coming soon (real this time)
anyway here’s a little sneak peak i guess lol
“It wasn’t real—from the smile of his mother to the unimposing and pleasant line of his father’s mouth. It was an image curated by a man to whom reputation meant everything—a man whose every breath was weighted by his own ambition. It didn’t depict the cruelty of his father, nor the developing illness of his mother. It didn’t portray the desperate and consuming need of a lonely child to be noticed, to be seen, by the man whose name he shared. It didn’t illustrate the fear that coursed through such young and undeserving veins, terror that had seldom been spoken aloud.
It was one of the only pictures in the house in which he was shown, and none of it was real, and every time he saw it a small part of him wanted to rot.”
