Decaying Winter Yosef Novels & Stories

ROSIE The Christmas lights hung across the ski lodge’s ceiling, blurring into streaks of gold and white as tears filled my eyes. I blinked hard, biting my lower lip as I tried to focus on anything in the room. The sound of the clock ticking, the muffled sounds of people, the snow falling outside the window—but nothing could take me away from this moment. “Come on, Rosie. Don’t be dramatic.” Josh’s voice held that cruel amusement I’d somehow missed for three whole months. Three months of believing someone like Joshua Carter—star hockey player, campus golden boy—could actually want someone like me.

YOU WILL DIE. AND I'LL BE YOUR DEATH ." THE END

The long, exhausting winter of their lives had finally broken. As the music faded to a whisper and the final embers of the great hearth fire glowed a deep, permanent red, Elara closed her eyes, letting herself melt completely into the unyielding embrace of her husband. The festivities were drawing to a quiet, beautiful close, but as she fell asleep to the steady, powerful rhythm of Rowan's heartbeat, she knew that their dawn was just beginning to bloom.