ThreyaMidnight

"So this is what they mean when they say your life flashes before your eyes when you die."

Betrayed. Battered. Broken. 

Evangeline Vermillion has had enough of her pathetic life. She was young—only in her early 20s—and she had planned to end it all by setting herself on fire. 

That was how she met Death—cold, dark, tall, and...handsome? Huh. Who knew the Grim Reaper could look like that? He takes her hand and guides her through the In-Between, the sacred realm between the Land of the Living and the Afterlife. Together, they revisit her most important memories. From the misfortunes of her childhood, to the chaos and bloodshed of the wrong kinds of love, Evangeline must confront the demons of her past to get to The Other Side.

Through all of the pain and anguish, Death stands with her, an enigmatic companion and unlikely confidant. And in their brief waltz between realms, Evangeline finally finds what she always wanted but never had: to belong and to be loved.

Waltz with Death

The memory started to fade, the colors becoming less vivid and the sounds growing distant.

I blinked and I was back in the storage house. I looked around, the place was still what it looked like before getting transported to another memory: It was filled with countless jars containing moments from my past.

I let out a heavy sigh as I returned the jar to the metallic shelf, the weight of the memory still in my thoughts.

My gaze wandered around the familiar but emotionally heavy place, even though I knew there was nothing new to discover here. It was as if I expected something to change, to find some solace in looking around.

Perhaps it was the depressive memory I had just witnessed that made me feel this way.

It was a heavy reminder of the sadness that had colored the latter part of my childhood hazy. I reached out and touched one of the cloudy-colored jars on the shelf, tracing my hands against the smooth, glass surface.

Die in a Fire