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    What I Gave You
    What I Gave You
    What I Gave You
    Ebook157 pages55 minutes

    What I Gave You

    By Madison Kelley

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    "There's always good in the bad. I will always be testing you, pushing you past your self-imposed limits but, above all, I will always be here to support you...Forever yours, The Universe."


    Whether you realize it or not, the universe lays out you

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Degree Press
    Release dateJan 14, 2022
    ISBN9798885040013
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      What I Gave You - Madison Kelley

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      What I Gave You

      What I Gave You

      Madison Kelley

      Illustrations by Konstantin Bessmertny

      New Degree Press

      Copyright © 2021 Madison Kelley

      All rights reserved.

      What I Gave You

      ISBN

      978-1-63730-714-4 Paperback

      978-1-63730-852-3 Kindle Ebook

      979-8-88504-001-3 Ebook

      Contents

      What I Gave You

      Part 1.

      The Departure

      Rapunzel

      Battleground

      Clouds

      Château Margaux 

      Maybe / Why

      The Chasm

      Lockdown

      The Traveler

      The Ascent

      The Last Garden in Macau

      it’s lonely in the middle

      To all the witches:

      Fluent

      A Good Girl 

      One-Sided

      Kousei’s Story

      Janie’s Story

      The Storm

      Part 2.

      Turbulence

      The Whole Package

      Peonies on the Dining Table 

      Valentine’s Day

      Rhode Island

      Dirty

      February 8th

      My Favorite Lie

      To Send You a Text

      Happy Birthday

      Paper Plane

      Golden

      A Cold Night in Paris

      Forgive Me

      All the Problems

      San Francisco 

      Light On

      Ribbon Around My Wrist 

      Angel 

      Knotted

      Middle Ground

      Train Wreck

      Alice’s Story

      I’m the worst, but you knew that 

      Solo Date

      Toothpaste

      The Castle

      Atlas Buckled at the Knee 

      Jack-in-the-box 

      Geppetto

      Magnetic Properties

      Drunk

      Allison’s Story 

      Antidote 

      Part 3.

      The Arrival

      The Difference 

      Celeste

      Petals of My Past

      Daffodil 

      Puddles

      January

      Faith 

      The Art of Performing

      Golden Hour

      If I Could Build a Man 

      Charlotte’s Story

      Paradise 

      I Met Fate and He Wore Red 

      My Love Affair with the Sun

      Plot the Course

      The Precipice 

      Landscape in Ink 

      My Greatest Fear 

      Confidante 

      Garden Walk 

      Imposter 

      My Truth 

      Dear Maddie, 

      Fin

      You gave me everything. This is the last thing I can give you.

      Note from the Author

      I think we can all agree that 2020 wasn’t the greatest year. Though, somehow, I found freedom. 

      In 2019, I moved from sunny California to Macau for an exciting work opportunity. Little did I know, I would get trapped here during a global pandemic. When lockdown first started in early March, everything seemed fine, like it couldn’t last forever. Macau closed its borders to travelers to contain the virus. When March turned to April, I started to get angry. I had to cancel a trip to Japan, and as April turned to June, I was living in a haze of negative emotions. Being sequestered on this tiny island was making me crazy. I’m sure all of you can relate, but I had no outlet to express this bubbling frustration towards a situation I had no control over, but nonetheless exerted complete control over me. Writing became my only release. 

      I would stumble upon moments in which I would see the sentences forming in front of me, and I would have to stop everything to write them down. This was a different experience than I’d ever had before. Apart from my usual journaling in college, I searched for inspiration and forced myself to squeeze out something artsy. But during the pandemic, I experienced inspiration as a slap in the face, almost as if my subconscious was urging me to deal with the situation by writing. Each time I furiously typed the words, I would feel the most cathartic release. I wanted to tell stories, not just about myself but about people in general. I am a zealous fiction reader and an avid anime fan, so a lot of my inspiration comes from Saturday nights in bed consuming stories. Being in isolation strangely gave me the space to dream, to rewrite my reality, and imagine a world in which things were different. I started seeing incredibly vivid scenes in my head. A cold rainy night, a lonely diner on the side of a highway, headlights and a neon sign. A brown-haired, brown-eyed, plain looking waitress, serving coffee. Immediately I knew every detail about her, and I had to tell her story. You’ll meet Allison later. 

      This collection is a journey, with a clear beginning, middle, and end, with characters that I hope you can relate to and even find yourself rooting for. As such, I took great care in ensuring that I present my readers with not just a cohesive narrative, but also a story that captures your heart. The beginning, Part 1, represents the departure. Leaving home for the first time and coming to terms with who you are, especially the parts you don’t want to face. Part 2 details the experience of being completely engrossed in someone else and the high that comes with first love. But what comes up must come back down, and heartbreak is a lot like turbulence. It feels like the plane is going to crash, but eventually you’ll land safely on the ground. This brings us to Part 3: the arrival. You’ve learned more about yourself, and more importantly, who you want to be. It feels like you

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