The Fountain
Description
Irene and Seulgi's love for one another has only one flaw:
Seulgi can live forever, and Irene is mortal.
"Youth may be beautiful, but it's not all there is to life. Everything changes."
They meet at University, and they fall in love almost instantly.
It's a burgeoning love, the sort of teenage romance that neither can ignore and neither can ever get enough of. And they do love each other. They do. But Seulgi harbours a secret that is impossible to tell.
She's immortal.
She's lived for eighty years.
In the long summers of their relationship, Irene comes to realise that Seulgi is telling the truth. Seulgi has always been telling the truth. And suddenly, they come face to face with the prospect of something much worse: Seulgi will live to watch Irene grow old and weary, and there is nothing she can do about it.
For Irene, all she wishes is to remember. To cherish each moment they spend together, each and every second, from their first until their very last. Until her very last. And all Seulgi wants to do is forget.
The Fountain is a harrowing tale of love, life, and mortality, written for the Shoes of a Unicorn Writing Contest.
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Foreword
Author's Notes
Yeah, I think I'm addicted to writing, lol. But when you're done with uni, and work's really easy, and your social life is really boring because summer's too hot to do anything, what else can I do but write? And now that my manuscript's been handed over for line edits, I figured there's nothing better than writing a bunch of AFF stuff. Sooo, even though I've already got a story on the go (Under the Neon Sun, here) I figured I'd start another. And yes, I'll be updating both of them in the future! :) Nothing's getting abandoned.
Note on content etc:
This story will be strange, in that it's not really like anything I've done before. It's not as darkly violent or brutal as The Longest Night, Babel, or Darkest Before Dawn, but it won't have the same comedy//fluff as Stargirl or I Don't Know You but Would You Like Some Coffee? It's somewhere in between. It's going to have a whole lot of angst and depressing romance, because that's the theme, really. So don't expect anything else, because you won't find it here :P
I'll probably end up writing a couple fluffy one-shots for my One-Shot Collection to make up for it, lol.
Anyways, in the meantime, enjoy!
If you haven't read any of my other stories yet, you can find them here:
Huge thanks to the We Got Fired Graphics Shop for the great poster and background, they do some amazing work! You can catch them below:
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