Never After

Never After

Author: Alexis Hall Listening Length: 13h 50m
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From fan-favorite author Alexis Hall comes a story of faith, redemption, and love—a melancholic tale of queer romance set in nineteenth-century England. On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the...

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His desire is a flickering candle flame, shame and frustration, want and fear, and it leaves me exhausted, sweating, and a failure. He does not pay.

Days and nights slipped away in an indeterminate haze as Micha gradually recovered.

There seemed to be a never-ending supply of soup, which he initially had to suffer Thomas’s aid to eat and left him pathetically exhausted.

There was also a supply of laudanum, but, unlike the soup, that was very much finite, and he slipped through his supply at an alarming rate.