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  • Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt

    Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "A brave and breathtaking musical...
  • Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić

    Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jelena, žena koje nema (Jelena, a Woman Who's Not Here; 1962) belongs to the inter-war period. It is the expression of an abstract idea in concrete terms, suggesting the force with which quite abstract notions and vague impressions can impose themselves on the imagination, demanding to be recognized as no less real than 'reality...
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    drama  classics  fiction  philosophy  psychological
  • House of Cards by sugamins

    House of Cards by sugamins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTSRelationships: Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V, Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung | V/Park Jimin, Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V/Park Jimin--------------------------------------------------Jungkook is the heir to a mob empire, the most notorious in the whole of Seoul...
  • The Ranch by Michael Robert

    The Ranch by Michael Robert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Erotic Gay Romance Josh West left the family ranch at eighteen, swearing to never return to Cody, Wyoming again. After the untimely death of his parents ten years later, he leaves the mess of his soon-to-be-ex behind in Seattle and returns to the ranch as the now fourth-generation owner to handle the sale of the land...
  • The Bird Catcher by Michael Robert

    The Bird Catcher by Michael Robert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Happily married, Seattle furniture designer, Ben, comes home early from work on his thirtieth birthday. After finding his husband of twelve years already celebrating in the shower with the party planner, Ben decides he needs a fresh start.Logan, a twenty-five-year-old residing in Idaho, is trying to escape from an emotionally abusive relationship...
  • Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Who’s been whispering to you, Jack?” ~ Doctor Halliday Jack Harrison has the evidence there in his hands—the DVD and notepad off D.C. Sanders that proves Gray supposedly played a part in tearing him and Jan brutally apart...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook
  • The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna

    The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for the ISBN can be found here."Ned was beside me, his messages running easily through him, with space between each one, coming through him like water. He was the go-between, going between the animal kingdom and this one. I watched the waves as they rolled and crashed towards us, one after another, never stopping, always changing...
  • A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

    A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book  classics
  • Sapphire Storm by C. Travis Rice

    Sapphire Storm by C. Travis Rice

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Under his new pen name, C. Travis Rice, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice offers tales of passion, intrigue, and steamy romance between men. The third novel, SAPPHIRE STORM, once again transports you to a beautiful luxury resort on the sparkling Southern California coast where strong-willed heroes release the shame that blocks their hearts’ desires...
  • Invisible Love by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    Invisible Love by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is the author of three luminous collections of short stories published by Europa Editions, including the bestselling Most Beautiful Book in the World, and one novel, Three Women in a Mirror...
  • Shiver by Ella Frank, Brooke Blaine

    Shiver by Ella Frank, Brooke Blaine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wide-eyed and innocent, you stumbled into my world, never knowing the danger that lurked within. The Wolfe’s Den is no place for a little lamb, but you came anyway, and from the moment you stepped inside, you were mine. In my life there are no happy accidents. Every move is carefully orchestrated. Every situation premeditated. That’s what makes the hunt so intoxicating. What you need, I become...
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    mlm  lgbtq  drama  romance  dark  steamy  contemporary  fiction
  • Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

    Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House...
  • More Than Anything by T.T. Kove

    More Than Anything by T.T. Kove

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He might’ve been the right person—if I hadn’t been so damaged and he hadn’t been so young.The first time I met him, he had a seizure on the pavement in front of my flat. When my efforts to find someone who could take him off my hands failed, I let him spend the night. He was already asleep anyway, so it wasn’t like I had any choice...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  age-gap  angst  book  coming-of-age
  • Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery.But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there...
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    mlm  lgbtq  drama  romance  dark  paranormal  horror  fantasy
  • Enemy by K.A. Merikan

    Enemy by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don’t bring a kiss to a knife fight.Roadkill. Violent. Brash. Obsessive. In the closet.Clyde. Cunning. Ruthless. Biker royalty. Trapped on the other side of the same closet.Roadkill.I’ve hated Clyde Turner since the moment I laid eyes on him. I hate him for existing, for tempting me, for being everything I can’t have...
  • Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

    Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award“I read Skin Lane with one eye closed out of sheer animal terror. Then, unimaginably, it brought me to tears; what a work of art—so unexpected and heartbreaking and lovely.”—Armistead Maupin“A powerful and complex story of sexual obsession. . . . A profoundly original meditation on thwarted desire...
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    lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  dark  fiction  historical  historical-fiction
  • War Against the Animals by Paul Russell

    War Against the Animals by Paul Russell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives in a small town in upstate New York. After having nearly succumbed to AIDS, he's recently regained a measure of his health but his long-term lover has moved away, and Cameron faces the daunting prospect of learning how to live with the idea of a future in mind again...
  • One Last Lie by Rob Kaufman

    One Last Lie by Rob Kaufman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s demonic and evil, a wicked she-devil you’ll love to hate in this riveting psychological thriller that reviewers say is “gripping”, “heart wrenching” and “holding my breath suspenseful”.Angela is beautiful and charismatic on the outside. But on the inside, a demon rages, determined to get anyone and anything she wants...
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    lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  psychological
  • Domestic Service by Ella Fenn

    Domestic Service by Ella Fenn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Colin Caldwell clawed his way out of a rough childhood to put himself through college, and now grad school. Broke, stressed-out, and struggling to stay afloat after he loses his regular ridesharing gig, he’s willing to do anything that pays the bills.Simon Vessey, on the other hand, is a handsome, wealthy, and successful executive...
  • The Ordinary Us by DomLuka

    The Ordinary Us by DomLuka

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the story of seventeen-year-old Quinn Moore. He has a loving family, good friends and a girlfriend he's deemed as perfect. Quinn's also gay, not that he's about to admit it. He likes things just the way they are, thank you. But then he meets Jude Landon, and everything in Quinn's comfortable world is turned upside down.Status: Complete Word count: approx...
  • The Boy at the Bottom of the Fountain by Jay Bell

    The Boy at the Bottom of the Fountain by Jay Bell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes dreams come true, whether you’re ready for them or not. Shane was only fourteen when found a photo of a boy his age and became obsessed with it. Now, thirteen years later, he has a chance encounter with a man who bears a striking resemblance...
  • Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso

    Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Natalia Borges Polesso apresenta, em Controle, uma narrativa impactante sobre relações homoafetivas entre mulheres, o poder do desafio e, acima de tudo, as escolhas que precisam ser feitas para que as pessoas se tornem quem elas querem ser.A protagonista, Nanda, é epilética. Cercada de cuidado pelos pais, ela evita ao máximo o contato humano — exceto pela amiga, Joana...
  • The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan

    The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    One school. Twenty voices.Endless possibilities.There's the girl who is in love with Holden Caulfield. The boy who wants to be strong who falls for the girl who's convinced she needs to be weak. The girl who writes love songs for a girl she can't have. The two boys teetering on the brink of their first anniversary. And everyone in between...
  • Probation by Tom Mendicino

    Probation by Tom Mendicino

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All it took to destroy Andy Nocera's seemingly perfect life was an anonymous tryst at an Interstate rest area. Sentenced to probation and thrown out by his wife, he spends his week as a traveling salesman, and his weekends at his mother's house where no questions are asked--and no explanations are offered...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  adult  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Simon Says by Elaine Marie Alphin

    Simon Says by Elaine Marie Alphin

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aspiring young artist, Charles Weston has enrolled in a private arts high school solely to meet the "famous" Graeme Brandt, a student whose recently published novel touched a chord deep within Charles.But Graeme is not at all what Charles expected, and soon the two teen prodigies are drawn into a clash of wills that threatens to destroy them both...
  • Gravity by Sean Michael

    Gravity by Sean Michael

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's never easy to run into an ex-lover, especially when the break-up was a bad one. That's exactly what happens to Hunter Barrister one evening at the Hammer, though, and he's more upset over seeing the amazingly beautiful Forrest Greune again than he ever thought he could be...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  angst  book  contemporary
  • Scarred Souls by Nick Kove

    Scarred Souls by Nick Kove

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can two scarred souls make each other whole? 
 Damian 
I’ve never given thoughts to any relationship with anyone. All I want is to start medical school and keep full focus on my education. At least, that’s what I used to want. Meeting Josh one rainy night changes everything...
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    lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction  mental-illness
  • Afterglow by Abigail Hunter

    Afterglow by Abigail Hunter

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stoic, masculine, powerful. Thorn is everything people want in a model. His stage name conveys a sense of dominance over others, and the strong look in his eyes lets the watcher know that he's in control. Thorn's next shoot is his opportunity to break out as an international model, but there's one main problem: Thorn has no idea how to act sexy...
  • London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp

    London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships — most notably with the soon-to-be infamous Oscar Wilde. A century later, David tells his own tale of unashamed decadence while waiting to be released from prison, addressing his story to the lover who betrayed him...
  • Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

    Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel...
  • Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard

    Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As an unexpected guest at his recently deceased lover's funeral, Tom is blindsided by the man's legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a chain-smoking girlfriend, and the older brother hell-bent on preserving a facade of normalcy, Tom is coerced into participating in the dishonesty until, at last, he confronts the torment that drove his lover to live in the shadows of deceit...
  • Painting Fire on the Air by J.P. Barnaby

    Painting Fire on the Air by J.P. Barnaby

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THIS VERSION IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE"A Survivor Story""From her perch on a shelf above my bed, the doll accuses me with lifeless eyes of failing Juliette in the most heinous way imaginable, forcing me to crave the bite of his whip and the steel in his voice to drown out the ache in my chest...
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    lgbtq  mlm  adult  angst  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Cutting Cords by Mickie B. Ashling

    Cutting Cords by Mickie B. Ashling

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sloan Driscoll is a talented graphic artist but compared to his father and younger brother—all star athletes—he’s never measured up. A lifetime of insecurity leads him down dark paths. His childhood friend, Cole Fujiwara, a former major league pitcher, embodies all of Sloan’s hidden aspirations. Cole is physically fit, attractive, intelligent, and successful. Seemingly perfect...
    Categorized as:
    drama  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  angst  athlete  audiobook
  • Party of Three by C. Travis Rice

    Party of Three by C. Travis Rice

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    C. Travis Rice’s Suite Secrets Novellas are steamy, standalone stories in the beloved universe of Sapphire Cove, a beautiful luxury resort on the sparkling Southern California coast, where strong-willed heroes release the shame that blocks their hearts' desires.“Jealousy was your word, babe. Not mine.”Buckley Mitchell lives to put people back together again...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  mlm  drama  romance  contemporary  fiction  military  polyamory
  • Pain and . . . pain? by Traxie

    Pain and . . . pain? by Traxie

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Free online fiction - completeWarnings: m/m, abuse, rapeJason is a seventeen-year-old kid living with his dad who's only interest in his son is how to make money with him...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  angst  book  child-abuse
  • The Couple Next Door by Rick R. Reed

    The Couple Next Door by Rick R. Reed

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With the couple next door, nothing is as it seems.Jeremy Booth leads a simple life, scraping by in the gay neighborhood of Seattle, never letting his lack of material things get him down. But the one thing he really wants—someone to love—seems elusive. Until the couple next door moves in and Jeremy sees the man of his dreams, Shane McCallister, pushed down the stairs by a brute named Cole...
    Categorized as:
    drama  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • A Touch of the Poet - Acting Edition by Eugene O'Neill

    A Touch of the Poet - Acting Edition by Eugene O'Neill

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Written in 1936, but first staged posthumously in the late fifties, this play is the sole survivor of an ambitious cycle of plays spanning several generations of one "far from model" American family. The author received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 and four Pulitzer Prizes...
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    drama  fiction  20th-century  psychological
  • Jeremy Thrane by Kate Christensen

    Jeremy Thrane by Kate Christensen

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of the highly acclaimed In the Drink, a smart and sexy exploration of New York and its customs through the eyes of a disillusioned, yet secretly hopeful, gay man.Jeremy Thrane is a thirty-five-year-old writer in love with a married man. For years, Jeremy has posed as "archivist" to Ted Masterson, a Hollywood action star...
  • The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom

    The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘SEE ALL FORMATS FOR NEW PAPERBACK (MARCH 23)’When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home...
  • Junk by Josephine Myles

    Junk by Josephine Myles

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He loves a good book, but he could love a good man more…When an avalanche of books cuts off access to his living room, university librarian Jasper Richardson has to face up to the truth. His ever-growing heaps of books, magazines and newspaper can’t be classified as a collection any longer. Jasper is a hoarder, and he needs professional help...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  adult  angst  book  contemporary  disability
  • Two Sisters by Kerry Wilkinson

    Two Sisters by Kerry Wilkinson

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They told us he had been missing for nearly two days, that he probably drowned. They told us a lie.Megan was ten years old when her older brother, Zac, went missing among the cliffs, caves and beaches that surround the small seaside town of Whitecliff. A decade later and a car crash has claimed the lives of her parents...
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    drama  lgbtq  adult  audiobook  book  crime  domestic-drama  family
  • The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold

    The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Basis for the major motion picture from New Line Cinema —starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack—in theaters November 2007When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he thought he had prepared himself for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turned out to be more than he expected—a lot more...
  • Cold Turkey by Zebbie

    Cold Turkey by Zebbie

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If there were groups for this, I know exactly what I’d say. “My name is Thom Oliver, and I’m addicted. It’s been six months, 3 days, 14 hours since my last one night stand. Please keep Evan Llewellyn away from me. I think I’m going to rape him.”Status: CompleteWord count: approx...
  • Play It Again, Charlie by R. Cooper

    Play It Again, Charlie by R. Cooper

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After an accident left him broken in body and spirit, Charlie Howard retired from the police force to teach at a community college. Life has taught him that he’s unlikely to get what he wants, so he’s stopped asking. Instead, he hides from the world in the apartment complex he manages. After all, no one can leave him if he doesn’t let anyone in...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  adult  age-gap  angst  book  contemporary
  • Bait by Amelita Rae

    Bait by Amelita Rae

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now included in the Yaoi Classics Bundle! Jinsei is a beautiful young man who uses his looks as ‘bait’ to take advantage of wealthy older men and steal their cars. Each theft puts him one step closer to being out from under mob boss Shibata’s thumb and closer to the freedom he craves. One night, the mobster orders Jinsei to steal billionaire Ishida Daijiro’s brand new Lamborghini...
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    mlm  lgbtq  drama  romance  steamy  contemporary  mystery  age-gap
  • Doctor Gay by Tabatha Allen

    Doctor Gay by Tabatha Allen

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B00XZHVM2A Genre: Gay Medical Domination / Straight to Gay Erotica Robert isn't sure if he's gay. After debating, his gay friend Peter gives him a referral for a very special medical test. Once Robert's strapped to the examination table, he'll get a hands on thorough exam. When he's done, he won't question his sexuality anymore...
  • Exotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Exotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SYNOPSIS Exotic Neurotic is a book of poetry which involves subject matter such as depression, imbalance within one's personal self, angst, frustration, youthfulness, antisocial behavior, and violence. In addition, many of Exotic Neurotic's thematic properties also pertain to love, illness, death, human anatomy, physical deformities, elimination, birth, and abortion...
  • Queer by William S. Burroughs

    Queer by William S. Burroughs

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton...
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    drama  lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book  classics
  • The Fall by Ryan Quinn

    The Fall by Ryan Quinn

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever...
  • عائشة تنزل إلى العالم السفلي by بثينة العيسى

    عائشة تنزل إلى العالم السفلي by بثينة العيسى

    Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    أنا عائشة. سأموتُ خلال سبعةِ أيّام.وحتى ذلك الحين قرّرتُ أن أكتب. لا أعرف كيف يفترض بالكتابة أن تبدأ، الأرجح من مكانٍ كهذا.. حيث يورقُ كلّ شيءٍ بالشك. تبدو الكتابة وكأنّها الشيءُ الوحيدُ الذي أستطيع فعله. أريدُ أن أضع نقطةً أخيرة في السّطر الأخير، قبل أن يبتلعني الغياب. لقد قررتُ أن تكون أيامي الأخيرة على هذه الشاكلة. أقصد: على شاكلة الكتابة. الكلمةُ كائنٌ هشٌ ومتهافت، إنها تشبهني. وأنا.
    Categorized as:
    drama  contemporary  fiction  psychological
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