"Often he lays on the work of his hand to test if it is flesh or ivory and he does not concede that it is ivory. He kisses it and thinks it kisses him back. He speaks with it, embraces it, and even feels that his fingers sink into its limbs and fears to turn them black and blue."
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
"I live in a peculiar world, she said, in a place where reality ends and fiction begins. Maybe that's why I love you."
- Michael Faudet
** Inspired by Ovid's tale Pygmalion, in which Pygmalion falls in love with a statue he created.
** (Dangerous Era). Michael is not famous in this story.
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Born from the Shards
FanfictionAfter a negative review from a popular, well-respected art critic, Eliana Masson falls deeper into a pit of despair. She's juggling two side jobs, drowning in a sea of never-ending bills and regrets, trying to revive her dying passion as a strugglin...
