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Bill Alive
Bill Alive
Writer. Thinker. Goofball.
Nov 30, 2025 3 min read

New Release! 📚 Dawn: An Unrequited Love Story

He loves her. She knows.
So does her awesome boyfriend…

Dawn

An Unrequited Love Story

From BILL ALIVE, the acclaimed author of CRAGS IN THE SUNSET, comes a gentle, ironic tale of unrequited love…

Rick loves Cindy. He knows it. For sure. And he needs to tell her how he feels, right now. Right here. In their (mostly) empty high school gym.

The problem? Cindy already loves her boyfriend. Sean. An awesome dude, who loves her right back.

What exactly does Rick expect to happen next?

A teenage story of unrequited love, set in a tiny private school in the late 1990s, yet steeped in the Victorian traditions of exalted sensibilities, relentless self-analysis, and the doomed obsessions of those dark nights of the soul that may or may not yield to the dawn.

🛒 BUY IT NOW: Dawn: An Unrequited Love Story

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📚 For the paperback edition, use that link to go to Amazon.

Dawn also appears in this collection:

Crags in the Sunset

(And Other Love Stories I Wrote In High School)

Master storyteller Bill Alive, author of THE PUNCTUALITY MACHINE, brings you five intense stories of love and relationships:

  • In "Dawn", the romantic Rick makes his very first profession of love in his high school gym… to the devoted girlfriend of one of his best friends. But what happens next is the real surprise.
  • In "Crags in the Sunset", the lovelorn Devin follows his high school crush to college, but freshman year does not go according to plan.
  • In "Kevin and the Foxes", love takes a darker turn, and in a lonely house, high up on a mountain, a marriage nears the breaking point.
  • Then, in "Die Auswahl (The Choice)", a time-travel elixir shakes up the stale marriage of a sour power couple… and also causes some rather global unintended consequences.
  • Finally, in "Arcanus", when an enslaved teenager in Roman times is trapped on a brutal battlefield, he may seem as far from love as you can get. But his Latin name means "secret", and if he can survive long enough to discover that secret, the truth could change his whole life.

The twist? Alive wrote all these stories in high school.

No, really. (Okay, one in college, but still.)

Curious? Take a look.

🛒 PREORDER NOW: Crags in the Sunset: (And Other Love Stories I Wrote In High School)

Click that link to preorder this e-book on any major online bookstore.

📚 For the paperback edition, use that link to go to Amazon.

Thank you for checking out this new release! Happy reading!

[Bill Alive]

Bill Alive