The story, the characters, and the world they dwelled in were all personifications of her own life. One night at the Midnight Club, Anya decided to take the mantle and tell the group a horror story. ![]() She had seen so many deaths since she had come to Brightcliffe Hospice that it had changed her outlook on life. But on the inside, she was a scared little girl who just feared the inevitable. It felt like it was her mission in life to offend everyone that came her way. She was portrayed to be this mean, unempathetic, and extremely insolent person from the exterior, who didn’t give two hoots about what the other person thought of her. Her personality had been shaped by some rocky experiences, and the fact that she had still maintained her sanity was a miracle in itself. ![]() Among all of them, Anya was probably the most convoluted person. These kids, who had just entered adulthood, probably had seen so much and experienced such bizarre truths that their core had completely changed. ![]() There was a kind of dichotomy that was omnipresent throughout the narrative of “The Midnight Club.” Be it the existence of the two worlds, i.e., the mortal realm and the undead realm, be it the duality of the characters (an alter ego that was accentuated by the stories they narrated), or be it the contrasting lives of the patients, before and after they had been diagnosed with the terminal disease, the dichotomy was evident all the way through.
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