by Francesca Zappia
It's all here and put together awesomely. Eliza is a high school kids with a marvelous talent for drawing and storytelling. Her web comic is so popular that people pay her to produce it. Other than a couple of online friends and her family, no one knows that's she's the much sought after author of Monstrous Sea. (Okay, this warrants a fantasy/wish fulfillment alert, so here it is. Who doesn't like to read about geniuses?)
She's also a recluse and a nerd, following in the spirit of her favorite author, the woman who wrote four volumes of the five-volume series Children of Hypnos and then quit, never ending her series. Some people say it was because she couldn't deal with fame. But the real reason is a complete mystery.
Back to Eliza. A new kid comes to school. A guy, of course. And they talk--or rather, they write notes and exchange texts. He's a tremendous fan of Monstrous Sea and writes transcriptions of it. Very good ones. Unfortunately, by the time she comes to trust him enough to share her secret with him...she can't. It would be like admitting to him that she lied during all those weeks when he shared his own secrets with her.
What a mess, huh? It gets worse. And better. And worse. Read it.
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