Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful, happy, and lucky little girl who believed in the world of made-up fairy tales. She firmly believed that one day her prince would come and carry her away to a lovely castle in a peaceful valley, where he would love her forever and she would always be happy. However reality was actually very harsh to Lily as she grew older. Uprooted from her native land, she moved to America with her family, and although she did her best to adjust, life smashed her with blow after blow, and than driving her into herself where she eventually died a lonely, neurotic, and bitter old woman. In this tragic love story of a woman who loved and lost and became afraid of life, the author also muses on fate and destiny, and whether we are truly the masters of our own lives. | Life Is Stranger Than Fiction by Melvin Malina, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters