Life of An Orphan
READING AGE 16+
Life of an Orphan is a haunting coming-of-age tale that follows Lucian, a boy who enters the world already marked by loss. From his first breath, life takes something from him—love, safety, belonging—leaving him to grow up in the quiet aftermath of abandonment and tragedy.
Raised without the warmth of family, Lucian learns early that survival is a language spoken in silence. Orphanages become his classrooms, loneliness his closest companion, and pain his earliest teacher. As he moves through childhood into youth, every relationship feels temporary, every kindness suspicious, and every hope fragile enough to break at a touch.
Yet beneath the scars and solitude lives a boy who refuses to disappear. Lucian wrestles with questions of identity, worth, and destiny, haunted by the feeling that he was never meant to stay. Through cruelty, fleeting love, betrayal, and rare moments of grace, he must decide whether his past will define him—or whether he can shape a future that does not begin and end with loss.
Life of an Orphan is a raw and poetic exploration of abandonment, resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to keep living when the world has given you every reason to stop. It is not just the story of an orphaned boy, but of a soul learning how to belong—to himself, and to life.
Unfold
Lucian learned that adulthood did not arrive all at once.
It crept in through small humiliations.
Through forms that asked for emergency contacts.
Through employers who wanted proof of experience but offered none in return.
Through mornings when he woke already tired.
The café job ……
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