Losing a loved one to an illness you can't fight is rough. Darkness sets in. People share advice. 'Time heals all', and 'it's always darkest just before the dawn'. Charlie lost Allie. Natalie lost her, too. They found each other and saw the sun rise. When they found Allison, another Allie, in a quirk of fate, there might as well have been two suns. For Charlie, there truly was a Dawn Beyond the Darkness.
A story in the Time Twitch Universe
That night in Flagstaff. A pickup at a Whiskey Bar and the ensuing fun and erotic romp. Graphic sexual content.
(To have better context around this story you might want to read Chapter 16 of a Ten Pound Bag)
A Mannsborough Chronicle Now that she's no longer Mrs. Ivan Vandevoort, Svetlana has to decide what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Not wanting to be idle or useless, she decides to drop out of the life she had and drop in to college. She soon discovers that college life is something she was not entirely prepared for.
Freedom is heavy. Not the absence of walls. Not broken chains. Not an open road. It is the moment you stop running. The moment you surrender to something stronger than your fear. She was sure of herself, yet starving for freedom. He became her mirror showing her the parts she was ignoring. The collar is no cage. It is an anchor. The weight that finally stops her from drifting into the cold, meaningless void of not belonging.