http://slow.writerscafe.org/AlexDauntless The original writings of author Alexanne Dauntless en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776012947 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 The night of the red strings. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/AlexDauntless/2115449/ The beginning of it all. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/AlexDauntless/2115303/ Chase leads an emotionally isolated life, constantly pulling the red strings of fate together for others, but blind to her own destiny. Until she meets Nick, and things go from bad to worse. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/AlexDauntless/2115302/ My mind is a tomb. A graveyard of buried hopes and dreams; a graveyard with tombstones of acid and drugs. I feel numb, but is numbness even a feeling? Do I even feel? What is it like, to feel? My body is nothing. Nothing but a machine left to do what it was designed to do. 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