Listen Closely, the initial companion piece to Chemistry, tells the same story as Chemistry from a very different perspective. Garen's version of events, while the same at its core, comes from an equally complex narrator, and gives new insight into the events of Chemistry.
Hello! My name is Kate Hellman, but in my wayward youth, I was more commonly known online by my penname, myheartisinohio. I write transgressive fiction, queer erotica, and some things that happen to fall into both of those categories. My work is published only on my website, which is linked to above. I am currently a college student, majoring in English Literature at a university in Boston, Massachusetts. As a note: I began writing my first novel in 2005, when I was fourteen years old. It is therefore... well, delightfully awful, one might say. Chemistry is full of cliches and overdramatic teenage romance, and I promise you all, I am very much aware of this. The story is currently being heavily revised--as in, I'm entirely rewriting it, with an additional decade of writing experience under my belt. For those of you who enjoyed the original story but found yourselves feeling a bit disappointed by the execution, I am very hopeful that one day you might be able to read a much better version of the story.