Distant Lover

By Gary Mitchell

Love is impossible to understand in its entirety, especially when we are in love with someone else. Distant lover is a walk through three stages of love and how we find ourselves trapped in its grip, struggling to make sense of where to go and how to get there.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481706896

Gary Mitchell

Gary Mitchell is a British playwright based in Northern Ireland. His plays, many of them political thrillers about contemporary life in Belfast, have been widely performed, and he has been called 'Northern Ireland's greatest playwright' (Guardian). His stage plays include In a Little World of Our Own (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1997), As the Beast Sleeps (Abbey Theatre, 1998), Tearing the Loom (Lyric Belfast, 1998), Trust (Royal Court Upstairs, London, 1999), The Force of Change (Royal Court, 2000, winner of the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright), Loyal Women (Royal Court, 2003) and Burnt Out (Lyric, Belfast, 2023).

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Published by AuthorHouse   01/10/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0688-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0689-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013900686

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Contents

Chapter 1 -  Roses, Bloom

Just a Moment

Love Equation

What If

My First

Tango

Secret Admirer

Confessing My Heart

Distant Lover

Chapter 2 -  Love… paradox, enigma

Thankfully Yours

Savior

Miss you, I Wish

Faith

A Lover’s Bond

The Aftermath

Chapter 3 - Fruition

Borderline

White Flag

Freedom to Be

The Makings of You

The Proposal

Welcome Home

Chapter 1

Roses, Bloom

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Many people define love as a powerful yet indescribable emotion that draws us to a person, place or thing. Some don’t feel that it’s an emotion at all, just a temporary energy derived from a sexual attraction. There are those who are in love with the idea of being in love, so they find themselves on a never ending chase for a high that they can’t satisfy. Some are so afraid of it, that they build a house around their heart and refuse to open the door for anyone who comes knocking. Some of us settle for the simplicity of companionship rather than the intricacies of a partner. We continue to debate whether it is truly better to live and have loved as opposed to never loving at all. Love brings happiness beyond belief. Acceptance. Security. Purpose. Love gives us insecurity. Drives us to the brink of madness. Causes us to lose sense of self and forces us to sacrifice reason for the need to understand and be understood. Love delivers beatings both physical and emotional. Love can suffocate and separate a person from life. Love can sustain lives