Love in Death (Followed by Four Unpublished Scripts)

By Pierre Charette

When you want to smell a rose, you also have to hurt yourself with its thorns. Mathias did not believe in love, he who was the outcast of society, the one who only broods... He didn't know that when you came to planet earth, the price to pay was to fall in love.

 

It is with Mathias and his friends that you will discover that love knocks on our door when we least expect it, it may only take a few seconds but what happens when you experience this emotion of ecstasy and sadness at the same time? Are you ready to fight for your love? Are you ready to go to hell to find heaven?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Éditions Dédicaces
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005487652

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Pierre Charette

Love in Death

Followed by Four Unpublished Scripts

First published by Editions Dedicaces 2021

Copyright © 2021 by Pierre Charette

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

I. LOVE IN DEATH

1. Funeral

2. Breathing for 19 Years

3. Lies and Truths

4. False Positive

5. Cogito, Ergo Sum

6. Home

7. City 23

8. Love In Death

9. Rebellion

10. Potential or Fate

II. FOUR UNPUBLISHED SCRIPTS

11. War

12. The Ego put on Standby

13. The Dark World

14. The Past to the Simple Future

I

Love in Death

If death is the end of a human life, can love resurrect it ?

1

Funeral

It was dark. Mathias only saw the dark. His tears had become a stream that flowed down his cheeks like a torrent. He couldn’t believe she was dead. Her eyes, her face, her lips were still whirled in his memory. She was alive and now she was dead. He fell to his knees and felt the darkness invade his heart. The rain continued to pour down his cheeks and everything became dark. The wind began to blow, and his love flew into a distant darkness. That was the end. The ground collapsed under the weight of his grief and he felt that he was falling into the nothingness of hell.

It was raining heavily on this summer day when Mathias attended today the funeral of a young girl he barely knew. The day was grayish; no ray of sunshine was present, which reflected the heart of Mathias, a boy who was six feet tall with long black hair.

Everyone wore a black and white suit and an umbrella, except Mathias, who had no umbrella and wore his usual jeans, holed, with a T-shirt of the wrestler Undertaker. The rain, mixed with her tears, flowed gently and peacefully over her body. Claire’s family and friends had all gathered at the Modern Cemetery for the departure of the loved one they had been around for nineteen years. With his eyes on the coffin, Mathias wept with a warm tear. He had tried in vain to save her, but now she was dead…she was dead… in his arms…

The scene of her death was still spinning in his head. It was late at night, he had just finished work and was riding