An Evening's Waltz

By Taylor Galbraith

His name is Louis Alexander Tollé; a dissociative, almost otherworldly beauty of a man who grew up in an aging village of no name that would eventually turn to dust for the fast-growing community of tourist attractions and hotspots; Bentley, Brookston, over a hundred miles away. For the first eight years of his life that he could remember, he only knew the wrenched concepts of his drunken, brutal father and his revolting behaviour. The cries and games of hunting the same type until Louis finds perfection was his life and his nights; waltzing through the streets as a free and unsuspected man. Of course, it was secret, and only he would know of it for a very long time. Louis is a seventeen-year-old high school student in his senior year. Louis has what seems like a normal life, or as normal as one could be, but that's only to his fellow classmates, teachers, and the public eye. As soon as he walks through the front door to his lovely nineteenth-century-styled home, his life is completely turned around. The actions and consistent threats of rape, murder, an interest in the grotesque ingest of flesh and blood, the art of song and dance, the art of a paintbrush to a canvas and his clean-slated, sophisticated dress-wear, and an Oedipus complex; Louis denies the wrongness in his nature and lives in the demented, psychotic fantasy that he treasures so dearly to forget the troubles and sins of a past he had no control over. When the law and his worst nightmares finally catch up to him, ruining what could be the last moments of his wonderful life forever, it may be only a matter of time before he suffers the same fate as his father before him, or worse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08LQVSWHQ
• ISBN13: 9798553449827
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"