Balloons de Feline | Fiction, Music, Chaos & Catharsis

When I wrote Backline, I didn’t realize how much of myself I was pouring into every page. At first glance, it’s a story about love, music, and the chaos that comes with life behind the stage. But beneath all the setlists, heartbreaks, and hotel rooms, it was about me—my emotions, my lessons, and my journey through the kind of pain that doesn’t get neatly resolved in three acts.

I didn’t write Backline from a professional distance. I wrote it from the trenches of feeling too much. Every argument, every quiet scene of reflection, every moment of creative fire—it all came from real experiences. Writing it was cathartic, but it also forced me to confront parts of myself that I had been avoiding for years.

That’s the thing about storytelling: it exposes the truths we try to hide, even from ourselves.

As time passed, I realized that Backline wasn’t the end of the story—it was just the opening act. The next part of the journey became Crossfade. If Backline was about breaking down, Crossfade is about rebuilding. It’s about transitions, blurred edges, and the strange in-between moments where you start to become someone new, even if you’re still holding onto pieces of the old you.

In music, a crossfade is when one song fades out as another fades in. That’s what this phase of life feels like for me. One chapter closing softly, another beginning—different tempo, same soul. I wanted the sequel to reflect that. The same heart, the same passion for authenticity, but a little more strength, a little more self-awareness, and a lot more healing.

For those who’ve read Backline and saw pieces of themselves in it, know this: Crossfade is for you too. It’s for everyone who’s ever loved deeply, lost themselves, and slowly started to find their way back.

My hope is that by being honest in my writing—and in posts like this one—I remind others that art doesn’t have to be polished to be powerful. Sometimes the most beautiful stories come from the messiest chapters of our lives.

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