Burnt Bliss
"Gatsby loved you. You were always the Grand Prize." Nick lamented.
"But I don't want to be a prize," Daisy protested, tears shining on her face. "I want to be a person."
The romance and glamour from the wild summer of 1922 had crashed and burned. By that autumn, Nick Carraway was left alone to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. With Gatsby gone, there was nothing keeping him on the East Coast.
Over four months of intense psychoanalysis back in Chicago, Nick struggled to accept his homosexuality and longed to find a place in the world where he could thrive. With help from his compassionate doctor, he finally put his distress behind him and got his life in order.
But only a year into this new life, he receives a letter from someone he never expected to hear from again: his cousin, Daisy. She's currently lonely in Europe, trapped by a loveless marriage with her abusive husband Tom. Nick had been disgusted with her for seeming to lead Gatsby on. But once she explains how much his passing has affected her, his rigid view of the entire debacle begins to change.
When Tom's faithless ways push Daisy to her breaking point, she chooses freedom. After years of weathering emotional abuse, how can she start over and finally flourish in her own right? With her young daughter in tow and Nick's steady support, she hopes she can live a more open-minded life, and find her place in the sun.
Stephie_Harageones · LGBT+