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BRAIDED EMERALD by Star_FansOriginals
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Silence is a lie. The Grit is the truth. ​In the year of Grand Hygiene, the Union has achieved the impossible: a world without friction. They call it "The Flow"-a seamless, emerald-tinted reality where history is edited in real-time and human souls are "lumped" into sterile data points. But beneath the vitrified glass of the Spires, the ancestors are still humming. Aaliyah is a digital ghost living in the red-clay shadows of the Salt-Ache. While the Union broadcasts a frequency of perfect order, she hears the 40Hz Bone-Script-a forbidden resonance vibrating in her very marrow. It is the sound of suppressed history, of a world that was never meant to be "cleaned." When she discovers the Wreckage Files, Aaliyah realizes the Union isn't just managing the future; they are harvesting the past. To stop the total erasure of her people, she must leave the safety of the shadows and perform a "Source Point Eject"-shattering the Union's architecture from the inside out. The war for the future won't be won with bullets or code. It will be won through Somatic Sovereignty. As Aaliyah's body becomes the ultimate conductor for the Rupture, she faces a devastating choice: stay a "Signal" within the Union's safe, emerald dream, or become the "Source" that burns the circuit forever. The history isn't written in books anymore. It's braided in the bone. ​[What's Inside] Somatic AfroFuturism: A fresh take on the genre where biology and frequency are the primary technologies. Atmospheric Worldbuilding: Experience the Tajin-salted skies and the crushing weight of the High-Sieve. Kinetic Action: High-stakes heists where the cost of failure is physical vitrification. Ancestral Tech: Explore how ancient rhythms become modern weapons. ​[Join the Collective] ​✨ VOTE | COMMENT | BRAID ✨ Join the conversation in the comments-are you vibrating at 40Hz yet?
DEBT IN THE DUST by Star_FansOriginals
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In 1923, the architects of Black Horse Creek, Oklahoma, brokered a desperate exchange with the very soil beneath their feet. By bleeding a "Blood-Silt" catalyst into the red clay, they successfully offloaded the town's collective probability of failure into the earth. It was a Sovereign Exchange-a century of curated stability bought at the cost of a debt that refused to stay buried. For a hundred years, this sanctuary thrived, shielded from the entropy and decay that claimed the world beyond its borders. But the land never offers a free ride. ​Sheena Hayes exists as the terminal node of this century-long sequence. A rodeo rider living at a relentless pace, every high-speed turn she makes serves as a kinetic grounding wire for the red dust's residual energy. She is a living battery for a contract that has finally reached its expiration. When a seismic breach tears through the Boomer Rock site, it triggers an accelerated collection event. Saturated with a century of suppressed chaos, the ground has begun to demand its repossession in full. ​Johntae is the face of that demand-a null-space entity serving as the designated collection agent. His biology is an unsettling inverse to Sheena's; he leaves no footprints because his existence is merely a subtraction of what the town owes. As he begins to unmake the reality of the creek, Sheena faces a Choice that defies logic. To preserve her cultural architecture, she must dismantle the Cairn Interface-the anchor of the town's very existence. Yet that interface is wired directly into Johntae's heart. ​The clock has stopped. The purge is live. In this final reckoning between ancient magic and industrial grit, the survival of a legacy hinges on a singular, impossible variable: the heart-weight ratio.
THE VEIL ACADEMY (#WITWcontest) by Clinton800
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Every century, when the Veil between the living and the dead begins to thin, a chosen few are summoned to the Academy. Hidden deep in the mist-covered highlands, the Veil Academy is no ordinary school-it is the last barrier between life and the restless shadows that hunger to break free. Selene Ashcroft never asked to be chosen. Gifted-and cursed-with uncontrollable elemental power, she can summon storms and shape fire, but every surge of magic threatens to consume her. Among students who walk through dreams, bind blood, and wield shards of the Veil itself, Selene must learn to master her volatile gifts before they destroy her and everyone around her. But the Veil is unraveling faster than ever before. Spirits are escaping. Nightmares walk the halls. And an ancient prophecy warns that one of the Academy's students will either mend the Veil... or shatter it forever. As secrets of the school's past unravel and loyalties are tested, Selene and her friends must decide how much of themselves they are willing to sacrifice to protect both the living and the dead. The Veil Academy is waiting. And the shadows are already watching. #WITWcontest
HORIZONS [M/N] by UNKNOWNONESTUDIO
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A story about an dark elf growing stronger into something great, and also painful. With strength able to surpass the world itself. (Understand the characters.)
The Crimson Crown:  Reign  by magicayda
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"When darkness waned, the reign began."
HP Lovecraft the complete fiction by mathsskov
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The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft collects the great horror author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's important writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Color Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Offering the most complete compilation of each set of works, Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland And Other Tales, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and The Divine Comedy.
KEKKI: 30 Day Judgement [ARC]✔️✔️✔️ by MYNOVELSTUDIO
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The story goes over a kid named shin,who then got a demon inside of his body called kekki and gets taken by Mori,an hunter. Read the novel to see the rest .
Free Verse Poems: by Bad_Forever
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Read and Comment! Poems that are relatable Making poems alive in writing again with one word at a time Feel feel to check out some poems
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR [1984] (Completed) by GeorgeOrwell
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Oceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism (shortened to "Ingsoc" in Newspeak, the government's invented language that will replace English or Oldspeak) is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party. Via the "Thought Police", the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as "thoughtcrimes".
ANIMAL FARM (Completed) by GeorgeOrwell
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Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when the UK was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union and the British people and intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem. It became a great commercial success when it did appear partly because international relations were transformed as the wartime alliance gave way to the Cold War. Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005). It also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.