Fated: A Hanahaki Story

Hanahaki is a fictional disease created in the fanfiction community in the early 2000s. According to the lore, a person can develop Hanahaki when they fall in love with a person so deeply they can’t live without them. Symptoms begin with a sore throat followed by intermittent coughing that eventually results in coughing up flowers.

If the sufferer doesn’t gain the love of the object of their affection, they will eventually die from suffocation. The only other known cure is to have them removed through surgery, but if they do, their feelings for the person will be lost forever.

Me? In love with a fictional character? Of course not! So why was I coughing up flowers every time I thought about the fictional character from my favorite video game?

Areth was a sexy, badass monster and utterly perfect, but none of that mattered because he wasn’t real. If I really was in love with him, I was going die, and there was nothing I could do about it.

This story

Unrealistic size difference resolved by magic. Fated mates. A very small dog. Monster love. Dimension hopping. Wanton destruction of furniture. So very many flowers. Fated is a ridiculous 16,000-word novella with super heckin' gay monster sexy times.