The Colors of Shadow and Rain

How would it feel...to not have emotions?Ophelia Lenov has never allowed herself to feel emotions. Or anything. At all. She wasn't the only one; growing up, everyone was taught that feelings led to weakness. Led to failure.So, like everyone else, Ophelia locked up her sorrows and her smiles each morning before going out into the world. But unlike everyone else, she unlocked her thoughts each night, and against better judgement, etched them onto paper.Those thoughts were proof. Proof of disappointment, proof of dysfunction. And anyone that had proof disappeared. No note, no explanation.In a world where emotions are outlawed, Ophelia expresses her journey to find a voice again through her poetry, her diary, and most dangerous of all, through her tears. Read more