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    After Ava
    After Ava
    After Ava
    Ebook32 pages21 minutes

    After Ava

    By Isabella Doucette

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    A NANOWRIMO story (2015) about mental health, learning to love one's self and finding connections.

    Quinn, or as her father calls her Queenie, is devastated and alone after the love of her life dies. After Ava, Quinn wants to be with her once and for all. Any semblance of the life she had planned out is gone. But then she falls, and miraculously lives, now Quinn has to rebuild her strength and rebuild her life. Can she rebuild herself after jumping from a rooftop and surviving?
    With the help of new friends, Quinn learns to trust her family, and connect with people. She learns she can save herself and that she doesn't need other people to fulfill her. She could be the love she needed. She could even love herself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriting Under The Moon Inc.
    Release dateJul 1, 2016
    ISBN9781311918697
    After Ava
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    Isabella Doucette

    Isabella Doucette is a non-binary Author.Isabella grew up with a love for books and a myriad of mental health and disability problems that were apparent to no one besides the family and physicians that treated Isabella. Growing up with dyslexia and learning dysabilitys, migraines that stopped them from daily activities and a single mother on chemo for years. Isabella's writing thrived in the adversaries as they grew inwards like a beautiful plant curling upon itself coiling high upon its own tendrils.Isabella Doucette is a Manitoba Writer Who Garduated CDI College in 2015. After studying Addictions and community service Isabella the Nonbinary Writer worked for several child care facilitys within the government until their disabilitys took a tole and they took time off to recover. Within the next 5 years they published seven books including All That We Are: Stories of The LGBT Community, Finding Home: Colony One and its sequel Indigo Night: Colony One.Isabella founded WritingUnderTheMoon publishing when they decided to independently publish under several pseudonyms. Hero Song one of the names associated with All That We Are: Stories of The LGBT Community and Elliott Findley author of The Colony One series are both pseudonyms of Isabella published under WritingUnderTheMoon Publishing.

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      After Ava - Isabella Doucette

      After Ava

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      To those who have lost someone they loved.

      To those who have loved.

      To those who have found themselves lost at the bottom of a bottle.

      To those in need of help.

      To those in pain.

      There is always a hand ready to reach out.

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      I looked out over the cityscape, at how beautiful it was to behold, yet I knew down below the world was not so beautiful.

      I played the voice mail one last time, a sweet voice whispered in my ear: I love you, Quinn.

      The phone fell from my hand. It felt right that this is the way it was to end. I stepped onto the ledge, closing my eyes as tears dripped down.

      Once I hit the bottom, I would finally be free of the world that seemed to only want to take from me, never giving me the freedom I so desperately needed. I would be with Ava once and for all; we would be together. She was all I had left, and I didn't even have her anymore. I felt so light, as if I were a bird and a simple breeze could blow me from my perch.

      My blood ran fast and hot through

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