Ashwinder :: To bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses

Damaged Goods

This story is completed.

1. part 1 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 11]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Self, Mutilation, Torture, Non-consentual, Sex, Slash
Summary: Severus Snape sets out to help a student back from the brink of madness only to discover a power that may destroy him. (2633 words)

2. part 2 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 6]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. -Publilius Syrus (2803 words)

3. part 3 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 4]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Sir Francis Bacon (1689 words)

4. part 4 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 6]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Abuse, Torture, Non-consentual, Sex
Summary: The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. -W. Somerset Maugham (3271 words)

5. part 5 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 5]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. --Henry David Thoreau (2395 words)

6. part 6 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 6]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Abuse
Summary: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root-Henry David Thoreau (2425 words)

7. part 7 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 6]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein (3281 words)

8. part 8 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 1]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: Self, Mutilation, Abuse, Torture, Slash
Summary: We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. -Orison Swett Marden (3343 words)

9. part 9 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 5]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. -W. Somerset Maugham (3471 words)

10. part 10 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 2]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (2453 words)

11. part 11 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 1]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. --Kahlil Gibran (3588 words)

12. part 12 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 2]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse-Murphy’s Law (1479 words)

13. part 14 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 12]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Self Mutilation
Summary: On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. --Virginia Woolf (5686 words)

14. part 13 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 4]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Abuse
Summary: Only the dead have seen the end of war --Plato (3462 words)

15. part 15 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 4]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Abuse
Summary: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. --Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (3951 words)

16. part 16 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 1]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? --Henry David Thoreau (4557 words)

17. part 17 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 1]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (5414 words)

18. part 18 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 2]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Abuse
Summary: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (4605 words)

19. part 19 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 1]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: Torture, Non-consensual Sex
Summary: No man, for any considerable time, can show one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally becoming bewildered as to which may be the true. -Nathaniel Hawthorne (5093 words)

20. part 20 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 2]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations --Kahlil Gibran (5911 words)

21. part 21 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 2]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: Abuse
Summary: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (6307 words)

22. part 22 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 4]
Genres: Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future. --Doug Firebaugh (6555 words)

23. part 23 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 10]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: Torture
Summary: Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. --Orison Swett Marden (6916 words)

24. Part 24 by Andrian (Wanton) [Reviews - 44]
Genres: Drama, Angst
Warnings: none
Summary: "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco (6902 words)

This story is completed.