Glitterland

The cosmos used to be like a glitterball that I could hold in my palm.

In the past, I was intelligent, content, and tomorrow was always crazy.

I'm flying, falling, shattering, and lost in the past.

And this is all that's left.

Ash Winters, once considered the golden boy of the English literary scene, is now a clinically depressed pulp crime fiction writer who has lost all hope, happiness, and most importantly, himself. He is plagued by the ghosts of other people's expectations and lives his life in between the cycles of his disease.

Then Darian Taylor, who was born in Essex, crosses his path by accident. Darian is everything Ash could ever hope for—bright, boisterous, vibrant, and full of life—yet he still manages to make Ash chuckle by reminding him what it's like to go above the limits of his nervousness. However, Ash has spent so much time living under his own shadow that he is unable to find a path out. Can a man never trust happiness if he doesn't trust himself? And how can a person who rejects happiness possibly stand up for his own?