Description: This is a collection of stories and poems that begins with a birth, with a dark, hatred-filled vision of the world, which foreshadows much of what is to come in the collection. However, this is not to say that the entirety is shrouded in darkness. Rather, this genesis is an awakening to despair and a hatred of life, a seeming realization of unwanted being. What follows is an attempt to deal with these feelings. Violence, thought, nostalgia, and consciousness all play a part in the attempt. This leads to a realization much different than that of the first awakening. It leads to meditations on betrayal and the definition of the self. With an understanding of the self comes a desire to examine others, look at life from a different perspective, and see beautiful things. Then a darkly humorous thought turns everything suddenly introspective, and confusion comes with it. What comes after that is foolishness, which brings thoughts about how things are done, what things should be like. It questions what is really important. Finally, there is a definition of the self that is shattered and redeemed by love and happiness from ashes, before a death occurs.

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