Beginning After The End [new] Instant

TurtleMe has the courage to let Arthur fail. Not "fail forward" where he loses a battle but gains a new power. No. Real failure. Loss that reshapes the entire geography of the story. The moment the "beginning" ends and the "after" truly begins is one of the most gut-wrenching shifts in modern web fiction.

Read it. But keep a tissue box nearby. Not for the action—for the moments when Arthur looks at his mother’s face and remembers that in his last life, no one ever looked at him that way. beginning after the end

It asks: If you lived a hard life and died lonely, and were given a perfect new body, a loving family, and immense power... would you finally be happy? TurtleMe has the courage to let Arthur fail