If I Was Alive...

By Bloodwitch Luz Oscuria

When a writer from the surrealist movement of the 20th century desperately seeks the concentration necessary to start writing in automatic writing, and the soul of a child who died of a long illness passes through him, this results in a long letter of which here is the content . Through this short story, you will discover an author who has become a mirror of an 8-year-old boy who dreams from the beyond of the existence he would have had if he had remained alive, from the rest of his childhood until to the grave.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloodwitch Luz Oscuria
• Release date: May 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9781667457192

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If I Was Alive...

Bloodwitch Luz Oscuria

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Translated by Saleem Rustom 

If I Was Alive...

Written By Bloodwitch Luz Oscuria

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IF I WAS ALIVE...

OF THE SAME AUTHOR

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LA SAGA DES VAMPIRES DIVYNS (Fantasy) :

* Nuit sur Pandémonia (2013)

* Fiat Tenebra (Que les Ténèbres soient) (2015)

* Les Saigneurs Divyns (2017)

LA SAGA GROWING ANTICHRIST (Fantastique) :

* Growing Antichrist, tome 1 (2014)

* Growing Antichrist, tome 2 (2021)

LE RECUEIL DE POÈMES (Poésie) :

* De Retour des Ténèbres (2019)

LA SAGA DES SOUVENIRS OUBLIÉS (Thriller psychologique) :

* La Brume de l’oubli (2019)

* L’Ombre du souvenir (2019)

* Les Souvenirs oubliés (2021)

LA SAGA DU NOVAE TERRAE (Historico-Fantastique) :

* Le Novae Terrae, tome 1 : La Guerre du Sang (2020)

* Le Novae Terrae, tome 2 : La Guerre du Pouvoir (2020)

* Le Novae Terrae, tome 3 : La Guerre des Clans (2020)

* Le Novae Terrae, la trilogie (2020)

AUTRES :

* Échangées (Nouvelle épistolaire – 2022)

* Le Prêtre et le Carillonneur (Thriller – 2022)

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Table of contents

PROLOGUE

LITTLE PIERRE

WHEN DEATH CAME

A NEAR NORMAL CHILDHOOD

THE START OF AN ADULT LIFE

A LOST ADULT

TIME FOR CHOICES

END TIME

EPILOGUE

PROLOGUE

Automatic writing is a rather special writing process, born in the 20XXth century. The goal is to succeed in completely emptying one's head of all consciousness and all will, and putting down on paper everything which comes to your mind, without trying to obtain the slightest logical order. It goes without saying that it's very difficult to manage to enter this state of quasi-spiritual trance. It is an integral part of the surrealist movement, a rather recent artistic movement since, as said a little above, it dates from the XXth century. Many authors such as Robert Desnos or André Breton, who is its founder, have given it a try. The latter has notably authored the Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, his first essay, manifesto in which he gives a rather clear and concise definition of automatic writing, as follows:

« Have something to write brought to you, after having settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind on itself. Put yourself in the most passive, or receptive, state you can. Disregard your genius, your talents and those of everyone else. Tell yourself that literature is one of the saddest paths which lead to everything. Write fast without a preconceived subject, fast enough not to hold yourself back and not be tempted to read yourself again. The first sentence will come by itself, as it is true that every second there is a sentence, foreign to our conscious thought, which is only asking to