Tamim membawa harapan ibunya saat dia melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara. Malangnya dia terjebak dalam kegiatan sebuah kongsi gelap antarabangsa kerana cintanya pada Rukiya. Selepas beberapa tahun bergelumang dalam dunia jenayah, Tamim pulang ke Malaysia kerana mendapat berita ibunya sedang sakit tenat. Jalan hidup Tamim semakin sukar saat dia dikhianati dan kemudian dipenjara selama lima tahun. Di penjara, perkenalannya dengan Pak Ismail Chin setelah kematian emaknya membuatkan Tamim berubah menjadi seorang manusia yang kembali mendekati Tuhan. Pembebasan Tamim membawa dirinya berhijrah ke Kuala Lumpur. Hidupnya berubah sekali lagi apabila dipertemukan dengan seorang anak kecil bernama Damia yang diabaikan kedua orang tua, serta kemunculan seseorang yang mengingatkan Tamim akan masa silamnya yang hitam.

For shop girl Evin, alchemy is an understood part of life. She learned how to brew superior potions at a young age and can't imagine her life without the use of Alertness, For General Pain, and Menstrual Cramp Cure. Though already apprenticed to a local master alchemist, she can't help feeling that there might be more for her to achieve. In a different part of the continent, Master Bricot teaches alchemy at the University of Craestor and is working feverishly at his residency project--translating the sacred document The Facerum--when a student of his approaches him seeking help on an unprecedented issue. And south of Craestor in Daitak Capital, the Seat of the World, Emperor Regent Bryn Beynon can't stand potions or those who make and sell them, believing their use, especially martially, to be barbaric and cruel. His first act when coming of age will be to begin imposing legal strictures on the use and sale of such items. Out in the Wilds of Tief, Craix, who travels alone, has never been safe. Not since she was born. Forever trying to evade her pursuers, she travels across the country, constantly intercepting important messages. And over all people in the realm of Heladrith, a pantheon of powerful gods sits in judgement and benevolence, silent for centuries--but not for much longer. Potent is an original, third-person omniscient, past-tense, low fantasy tale with an ensemble cast of approximately eight characters of different genders, orientations, colors, and classes. --Seeking beta readers for this manuscript! Please comment and leave feedback!--

[ UPDATES EVERY WEDNESDAY ] ❝And now you're just a stranger; with all of my secrets.❞ Emryn Grace has always been late, and consequently, she misses her connecting flight back to LA. Aiden Mendes has always seen things in monochrome, but when he crosses paths with Emryn at an airport, the world through his glasses begins to gain some color. One missed connecting flight. Two young strangers. A storm. No 'butterflies' or 'time stopped when their eyes met'. Just burning annoyance towards her simmering down his back every five minutes and his cold demeanor and 'ironic' eyes, piercing through her own walls. But add in a wild game of twenty-one questions and bold moves, their story might not be so black and white anymore. ▃ ▃ | MULTIMEDIA CHICKLIT // PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS 'State of Flux' | Highest ranks: #8 on Airport out of 3.75K stories #15 on Adults out of 1.87K stories #52 on Hilarious out of 5.9 K stories NOTE | this story is a first draft; aka highly unedited.

The world had gone to hell long ago, taken over by the vampire race. In order to keep some sort of peace in our land, the Vampire Lords made a consecutive agreement. The rich and powerful humans could survive just as they had been, untouched by the vampires save for the occasional blood collections, or so they thought In reality, we were all under their control. Castles spread out throughout our land, one landing in each city. Each castle varied in the number of vampires residing there, but all of them carried a Lord. The Lords were the ones in charge in every city, whether we liked it or not. The vampires often roam through the city, making sure that everyone was in order and no one stepped out of line. If you stepped out of line, you died, end of story. Even if the rich were still under their control, their lives were still better than the poor. The poorest lives held a much worse fate. The men were to be put to work as slaves, whether that meant serving a specific vampire, or just building their castles, they were slaves. The women were to be pets. Pets were the lowest rank you could have. They were forced into cages that were too small to stand in with collars around their necks. They spent their lives in pet shops, just waiting for the dreadful day that they'll be bought. They were treated like animals, trained into what their master wanted, and punished if they misbehaved. Those who were lucky enough to live through that, we're to be slaughtered for their blood at age twenty-five in an act to make sure that our population would stay steady. I was born into this world. Born into this world full of blood-sucking monsters. Except, I was one of the lucky ones. Was. It all ended for me when I was 12, when I was taken away from the last bit of hope and family that I had left. Ever since then, I've lived in a cage, just rotting away, waiting, dreading for the day that some monster would make me his. This is my life. I am a pet. ~~~ Cover by: @mshacake