Love is a mysterious power and is hard to come by, true love that
is. It can come and go or it can stay and be real. But people tend to abuse love
and move towards lust and selfishness. This is how people can get hurt
emotionally and even physically. In the short story "The Chaser", the
character Alan teaches a valuable lesson; you can't force true love, and fake
The beginning Alan tells us a little about his situation, he is
completely into his girlfriend and has gotten to fall in love with her. But he wants
her to love him just as much as he does. So he checks up on a potion specialist
for a potion for love. This is a mistake in the first place. He should have thought
of some alternative solutions, like being kind and giving her gifts to show he
feels about her. If he fails at that then they just weren't meant or it takes more
But no, he proceeds to see what the old man has in stock on the
wooden shelf. As he continues to search a story about another potion begins
to start. "A glove cleaner, or life cleaner." A potion undetectable by autopsy and
is along the lines of a poison. Usually people who purchase the love potion find
the glove cleaner very handy. "For one teaspoon of the glove cleaner is five-
thousand dollars not a penny less. Love has taken Alan over and he is about to
Now things have gotten serious about buying this love potion,
after all the old man tells him everything that he wants to hear. The potion will
create a tight bond, the woman who takes it will be always by your side and
always worried about you. But he just does not see through to what will happen
in the end. Love must come natural, if he really cared for her then he would
leave her be and accept their differences.
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