Dancer in the Dark

By Heidi Palazzo

At the mercy of abusive lives and Borderline Personality Disorder, a boy and girl on separate edges of the world discover each other online. Bonding through music, video games and a mutual understanding of self-destruction, they rapidly shift from being best friends to lovers, finding in each other a tenderness their worlds had never offered.

But things change.

Now older, the woman sits down to reflect on their story. Spanning 15 years and subtly weaving traces of their past into poetry, she wonders if the beauty of words is enough to overpower the tragedy of a dismantled mind, body and life.

The prequel to a planned trilogy, 'Dancer in the Dark' explores the darker side of human nature and reality of living with both mental and physical illness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: Feb 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9781925880649

Book preview

Fragile

I can’t sleep.

Twilight fingertips reaching for the glacier,

Hoping to stroke the motionless.

Never seeing, never breathing -

No signs that you were ever here.

The clock beats, ushering in

That forgotten epoch of our history:

A place that was ours, where

The blind children we were still sing.

We were too grand for confinement,

And as we drape our shrouds over

A candle well-worn, remember me well,

And listen to me speak:

You were greater than this beast; the agony.

You were the scripture on my bones;

Beauty within the weak.

Like crazy, those stars in my mind collide,

And I miss you, I miss you,

More than you ever believed, or knew.

My bitterness soaks through, and resentment

Chimes in tune, but the hidden notes scream that,