Before the First Step
A friend asked me to write about sadness—and what lies beyond it.
Not in a poetic, romanticized way. But real. Raw. Honest.
We spoke about the thin line between sadness and despair…How one can feel temporary, while the other swallows time whole.
This story was born from that conversation.
It follows an unnamed soul—someone who could be anyone—as they slowly slip, disappear, and, somehow, begin to find their way back.
It isn’t a story of miracles. It’s a story of moments—fragile, stubborn, human.
The kind of moments that remind us we’re not broken beyond repair.
If you’ve ever sat quietly with your hurt, unsure of where it ends or if it does—I hope these pages remind you that you’re not alone.
And maybe, like the protagonist,you’ll find that even in the deepest dark, a quiet light waits for you to notice it.
A friend asked me to write about sadness—and what lies beyond it.
Not in a poetic, romanticized way. But real. Raw. Honest.
We spoke about the thin line between sadness and despair…How one can feel temporary, while the other swallows time whole.
This story was born from that conversation.
It follows an unnamed soul—someone who could be anyone—as they slowly slip, disappear, and, somehow, begin to find their way back.
It isn’t a story of miracles. It’s a story of moments—fragile, stubborn, human.
The kind of moments that remind us we’re not broken beyond repair.
If you’ve ever sat quietly with your hurt, unsure of where it ends or if it does—I hope these pages remind you that you’re not alone.
And maybe, like the protagonist,you’ll find that even in the deepest dark, a quiet light waits for you to notice it.
- Solara
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Intro chapter : https://www.chatzozo.com/forum/threads/ashes-and-after.60717/ ______________________ The Subtle Shift I don't remember the exact day it began. No dramatic moment, no explosion of grief or heartbreak. Just a quiet kind of fading. At first, it was simple things. I’d sit through...
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