My backs hurt really bad after this

Merry Christmas 🎄

Finally I got my apartment all set up for Christmas and I have to celebrate alone again

At the peak of splendor

Chapter1:
On the eve when summer first exhaled its warm breath, she walked the ancient promenade where lanterns bobbed like captive stars.
No one remembered her name.
But beneath that pale moon, a stranger waited in the shadows, eyes dark with secrets he had vowed never to share. And so it begins.

‘There’s beauty in empty spaces, comrades, and sacred mystic mystery in silent places.’

Meet my furry companion Matty, she's quite the character 😺

Here begins the chronicle of two souls who found each other not by fate, but by the gentle rebellion of the heart.

Twenty chapters. Twenty fragments of longing. One love that outlived the night.

Title: A WHISPER BENEATH THE LANTERN MOON 🌙

There was once a story never inked on any parchment, a tale that danced on candle flames and drifted between sighs in the dark, a romance so quiet, the world never heard it, and so fierce, the stars leaned closer to listen.

Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount next June! Please help us spread the word. Submissions deadline: 1 October

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