This is an excerpt and a first draft. Eighty percent of the story will be available here; the rest of it will be on my subscription channel on InkItt—the reasons for this 1. I'm now writing full-time, and a girl has to eat. 2. Mirror sites and the like plague free stories. 3. I'm working on getting these published. They need editing, which is rather expensive. 

https://www.inkitt.com/edit/875945

Warning, my stories are not gentle tales of perfect lives. They're gritty, sometimes dark, always with the edge of pain, the certainty of loss, the possibility of wonder, a twist you didn't expect, and characters that you will fall in love with. There will be mature content, so, PG18+ Graphic. Trigger warnings.