Elara Under Glass

Elara Under Glass, is fictional short story of love, lonliness, and betrail. Written by Mike Mospan for the New Year - 2024! Enjoy!

In the digital glow of her smartphone, Elara Mitchell sat quietly in the glass-walled penthouse overlooking the sprawling city. The world had changed, morphing into an unending network of virtual connections and fleeting digital interactions. Yet, amidst this relentless modernity, Elara yearned for something more tangible, a connection that bytes and pixels couldn't suffice.

Her husband, Nathan Mitchell, once a charismatic tech entrepreneur, had become a shadow of himself after the self-driving car accident. The incident left him paralyzed, dependent on machines and aides, his world confined to the sterile rooms of their high-rise sanctuary. Nathan, absorbed in his virtual reality projects, seemed to exist in a different realm, leaving Elara in a sea of solitude.

It was on a crisp autumn day, the kind where the city seemed to pause and breathe, that Elara met Leo Jarvis. He was the new landscape architect, hired to bring life to the penthouse's rooftop garden. Leo was everything the digital world wasn't; earthy, passionate, and intensely real. His hands, always soiled from the soil he tended to, spoke of a life lived in harmony with the rhythms of nature...

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