BloodSweatTearsCandy

Candy Hearts reveals tomorrow, and I fought for that story so hard! It was like pulling teeth. I started over twice, and have been editing up until now. And I'm still not happy with it. It really needed about 10k more words to develop the themes I introduced and to make the progression of the relationship more realistic, but with time and energy constraints, I did what I could. I ended up with a little over 4k words, and you can bet I'm going to be counting the 3.5k words of the other attempts, as well!

I'll give it one more editing pass tomorrow after work, but at this point, it is what it is.

I know my brain doesn't work the same as it did a few years ago, but this was ridiculous.

Hopefully, it at least makes narrative sense, even if it isn't satisfying. I know I can do better, and that's what's really killing me right now! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻