'Of Love and You' Complete
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:40 pm
"Do you love me?"
An innocuous question asked from friend to friend, and its response is a resounding, "No." Rather than sink into despair, the narrator grins and bears with it.
'Of Love and You' is a story that is about love, and simultaneously it is not about love. It is about love, as the story focuses on the relationship between the narrator and his best friend, Dewi. A relation that, the narrator claims, is entirely based on a platonic and mutual liking of each other. A relation that, viewed from outside, may be construed as a very close and loving bond.
Simultaneously, it is not of love - love in prose tends to be explosive and full of passion. Love isn't a word, it's an experience which you actively enjoy. 'Of Love and You' has no explosive and passionate love to be enjoyed, and it does not in fact even include any professions of love. Indeed, it only talks about the impossibility of love between people who aren't family.
Yet it is a love story.
The story is about 6,400 words in length, providing a reasonable reading time - its length exceeds that of my previous work 'Nice Day', and I hope it manages to meet or exceed the enjoyment people had from reading my previous work. 'Of Love and' was released as a three instalments series here before; if you have read those and liked them, please consider giving 'Of Love and You' a read, as it compiles the three instalments and adds a conclusion to the story, as well as a new scene between parts two and three.
'Of Love and You' can be downloaded from my web site here for Windows and a combined Windows/Mac/Linux distribution. It is licensed under Creative Commons, the details of which can be read here or in the licence.txt file included in the distributions.
Credits
Artwork: lordcloudx
Backgrounds: Flickr photographers, refer to in-game notes for names
Music: Marc Conrad Tabula (http://marc.mctabula.com/)