Beyond the Veil

On äglorious¿sunlit¿afternoon¿in New York City,¿Gwen Winter¿prepares for her wedding, exuberant with the promise of¿her future¿with¿Nas¿Zia, the man of her dreams.¿Her heart races¿unbridled,¿outpaced¿only by the¿overwhelming¿emotions¿slicing¿through her. Flickering¿images¿of¿times spent with Nas¿spool past her¿mind's¿eye¿like¿frames of¿celluloid movie film.¿Outside, ächurch bell¿clangs,¿hammering¿away at¿Gwen's¿veneer until¿it shatters¿and all the¿warnings¿she'd refused to accept¿come crashing down around her.¿Nas is everything she's ever wanted and at the same time everything she's been told she can never have.¿A final knell rips¿through her¿proclaiming¿that¿she's been forsaken and¿what was supposed to be the¿best¿day of her life¿is¿no more than¿a ghastly farce.