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    These Wounds Bleed Black ✓
    These Wounds Bleed Black ✓
    EkemWrites
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    | 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐘𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 + 𝟏𝟎𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 + 𝟔𝐗 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 | 
        
        'It's Hard To Let Go Of The Past... When The Past Is All We Have Left...'
        
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        A struggling superhero joins four school friends to help rewrite a global catastrophe but accidentally enters an entirely new reality with devastating consequences.
        
        ═══════════
        
        Chase Witherson can't seem to enjoy life to the fullest. 
        
        Despite living a teenage life by day, and upholding the dark superhero alias -- Ghostshadow -- at night, all of those 'festive feelings' are worn on the surface. Never mind those routine night terrors, his age-old flip phone, or the eerie dark figure that keeps stalking him every afternoon, Chase can't shake the thought of his parents and the brutal tragedy that took their lives a mere decade ago.
        
        And his greatest fear? Living alone and broken like this, forever. 
        
        After a deadly blackout exposes the existence of a hidden time machine, he takes it upon himself to alter his past to save his home. But, rather than return to a land he'd hope to love, Chase enters a terrifying new realm where nothing is as it seems, while a darker, more sinister catastrophe is already rising to the spotlight.
        
        Threatening to kill everyone he had just sworn to protect.
        
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        'You only have three choices in this life, kid. You could burn. You could fall. Or... you can fight. What's it going to be, Ghostshadow?'
        
        [𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄/𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓]
        
        [Featured On @TeenFiction, @Antihero, @Superheroes, @Action, @Adventure, @Fantasy @Alt-U @Undiscovered]
        
        Date of Completion: April 17th, 2022
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    Table of contentsLast updated Apr 14, 2022
    • | 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 |
    • Prologue
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰 ~
    • The Shadow
    • A Voiceless Night
    • Telltale Hearts
    • Aftermath
    • The Blackout [Pt. 1]
    • The Blackout [Pt. 2]
    • Searching
    • The Lonesome
    • What Lurks Beneath Us
    • The Machine
    • Brooklyn Allies
    • What Don't You Know?
    • The Broken
    • Losing Control
    • Paroxysm
    • As Far As Possible
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰𝑰 ~
    • Two Towers
    • One Bad Day
    • Trials
    • Tell Me Everything
    • A Strange New World
    • United 93 [Pt. 1]
    • Vimbashi [Pt. 1]
    • The Fellowship
    • A Long Island Duel
    • Tribulations
    • United 93 [Pt. 2]
    • Vimbashi [Pt. 2]
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰𝑰𝑰 ~
    • His Dark Reflections
    • Night Terrors
    • A Bad Interrogation
    • I Care, Too
    • What Are Friends For?
    • Home, Sweet Home
    • Meanwhile, In Brooklyn...
    • Fear Be Told [Pt. 1]
    • Fear Be Told [Pt. 2]
    • Subterfuge
    • Pain
    • The Battle Of Hendrix Street
    • A Choice Of Evils
    • Losing It All [Pt. 1]
    • Losing It All [Pt. 2]
    • I'm Sorry, Friend
    • No More
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝙄𝙑 ~
    • The Knight of Manhattan
    • Tell Me Why
    • United 93 [Pt. 3]
    • United 93 [Pt. 4]
    • Dealing With The Devil
    • Abandonment
    • A Taste Of Life
    • Brotherhood
    • Omens
    • The Hate We Seek
    • What Doesn't Kill You
    • A Rumble On 42nd Street
    • Prisoner of War
    • My Truth [Pt. 1]
    • My Truth [Pt. 2]
    • All For One
    • One For All
    • How To Forgive
    • Silence
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝙑 ~
    • I Remember
    • Against Us
    • Saving Chase
    • The Last Agent
    • Who We Are
    • Exacerbated
    • West Street Dash
    • Getaways
    • Manhattan Street Fight
    • Show Them
    • A Midnight Siege
    • Another Way
    • For All Time
    • Goodnight, New York
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝙑𝙄 ~
    • Fargone
    • Remember Us
    • Tuesday
    • You Can't Save Me
    • Lose Yourself
    • The Death Of Ghostshadow [Pt. 1]
    • The Death Of Ghostshadow [Pt. 2]
    • The Bardo
    • A Second Chance
    • I'll Never Forget
    • | 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 |
    • | 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒, 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐒 |
    • | 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐒, 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐓 |

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    • | 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 |
    • Prologue
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰 ~
    • The Shadow
    • A Voiceless Night
    • Telltale Hearts
    • Aftermath
    • The Blackout [Pt. 1]
    • The Blackout [Pt. 2]
    • Searching
    • The Lonesome
    • What Lurks Beneath Us
    • The Machine
    • Brooklyn Allies
    • What Don't You Know?
    • The Broken
    • Losing Control
    • Paroxysm
    • As Far As Possible
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰𝑰 ~
    • Two Towers
    • One Bad Day
    • Trials
    • Tell Me Everything
    • A Strange New World
    • United 93 [Pt. 1]
    • Vimbashi [Pt. 1]
    • The Fellowship
    • A Long Island Duel
    • Tribulations
    • United 93 [Pt. 2]
    • Vimbashi [Pt. 2]
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰𝑰𝑰 ~
    • His Dark Reflections
    • Night Terrors
    • A Bad Interrogation
    • I Care, Too
    • What Are Friends For?
    • Home, Sweet Home
    • Meanwhile, In Brooklyn...
    • Fear Be Told [Pt. 1]
    • Fear Be Told [Pt. 2]
    • Subterfuge
    • Pain
    • The Battle Of Hendrix Street
    • A Choice Of Evils
    • Losing It All [Pt. 1]
    • Losing It All [Pt. 2]
    • I'm Sorry, Friend
    • No More
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝙄𝙑 ~
    • The Knight of Manhattan
    • Tell Me Why
    • United 93 [Pt. 3]
    • United 93 [Pt. 4]
    • Dealing With The Devil
    • Abandonment
    • A Taste Of Life
    • Brotherhood
    • Omens
    • The Hate We Seek
    • What Doesn't Kill You
    • A Rumble On 42nd Street
    • Prisoner of War
    • My Truth [Pt. 1]
    • My Truth [Pt. 2]
    • All For One
    • One For All
    • How To Forgive
    • Silence
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝙑 ~
    • I Remember
    • Against Us
    • Saving Chase
    • The Last Agent
    • Who We Are
    • Exacerbated
    • West Street Dash
    • Getaways
    • Manhattan Street Fight
    • Show Them
    • A Midnight Siege
    • Another Way
    • For All Time
    • Goodnight, New York
    • ~ 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝙑𝙄 ~
    • Fargone
    • Remember Us
    • Tuesday
    • You Can't Save Me
    • Lose Yourself
    • The Death Of Ghostshadow [Pt. 1]
    • The Death Of Ghostshadow [Pt. 2]
    • The Bardo
    • A Second Chance
    • I'll Never Forget
    • | 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 |
    • | 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒, 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐒 |
    • | 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐒, 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐓 |
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