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Embalmed Angel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Embalmed Angel is a chilling and deeply emotional poetry collection that tells the story of Mark Divine, a fictional character whose voice lingers like a ghost, recounting his descent into love, betrayal, and death. Mark is not only a dreamer with a fragile heart but also a man haunted by the horrors of being gay in an unforgiving world. His relationship with Peter, fraught with obsession and longing, becomes a mirror for the rejection, shame, and violence he endures.
Through evocative and unsettling verse, Mark unravels his own tale-of forbidden love turned destructive, of a heart yearning for connection but shattered by betrayal, and of a life cut short by hatred. As his story spirals toward its chilling climax, Mark finds himself claimed by the waters-a victim of both his own turmoil and the cruelty of those who could never accept him. Mark's voice persists beyond death, transformed into an embalmed specter, bound to the echoes of his suffering and the remnants of his love for Peter. His story is a stark, poetic exploration of the intersection between love and pain, longing and rejection, and the price of vulnerability in a hostile world. Dark, intimate, and profoundly unsettling, Embalmed Angel is more than a poetry collection-it's an elegy for lost love, a reckoning with identity, and a ghostly reminder of the fragility of being human in a world that punishes difference.
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