I had seen him in my dreams every night for years. The only thing that was the same was that we couldn't touch, or I woke up. He wasn't real, just a fantasy. Or so I thought, until I saw him. Short Story for the Fireplace, a literary community on Discord.
COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place...