Fiction

A Message of Hope: A Silent Love Story

A story of love, desperation, and hope.

Maaz Ahmad
Catharsis Chronicles
2 min readSep 12, 2024

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A delicate heart shape made of glowing wire is set against a softly blurred background, evoking warmth and affection.
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It’s a story of love chiseled by desperations, and disappointments yet with a deeply fulfilling victory at the end.

The story is about a boy who fell in love prematurely, struggled to confess his feelings, and remained too reserved to express them even into adulthood.

It’s a summation of all sleepless nights awaiting a miracle to happen to somehow express himself. It’s a story of desperation for countless years. But it’s also a story of hope, a story of delayed yet intoxicating gratification. It’s a story worth telling.

He was a teenage boy who had all the armor of humor and ambition with a pale face and a kind heart. He belonged to a humble family surrounded by too many problems to actually count love in but it was the only one where he had hope and this hope unconsciously channeled itself which fueled his perseverance for other problems as well.

She, on the other hand, was everything. Her presence was like a burst of light in his otherwise ordinary world. There was something about her — an elegance, a charm — that made her seem like a living work of art.

To him, she was perfection incarnate, as if the universe had taken extra care in crafting her…

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Maaz Ahmad
Catharsis Chronicles

Engineer in the Morning Writer at Night. Never underestimate the power of words.