Even the slightest taste of power can wreck the strongest relationships. A tragic war destroyed the land of Tenzel and killed most of its people. The few survivors now live in hiding. Their leader, Marina, is a strong woman who does everything she can to keep them safe. She blames herself for the death of one of her two sisters and is determined not to lose anyone else.

Caelan is dangerous in ways that aren't loud. He keeps himself contained because he believes it's the only way anyone stays safe. Riven becomes the witness to that control-and to what happens when it falters. This is a slow, intimate story about restraint, fracture, and the cost of staying after something breaks. *I post two chapters every Thursday. Might be at different times, but Thursday will always happen.* TRIGGER WARNINGS: trauma • panic attacks • dissociation • violence (non-graphic) • emotional distress • PTSD • past child soldier experiences Author note: This story engages with trauma and its aftermath in a serious, intentional way. I've done my best to portray these experiences with care and respect, not as a spectacle or shorthorthand, but as something lived and carried. Please read at your own pace and take care of yourself. Thank you for being here.

When Hillary Nathan's dark past is revealed. She realizes she must leave her life in England behind. Bittersweet memories of the one she once loved who brought a storm of chaos that nearly destroyed her life begin to flood her consciousness as she prepares to flee her home in Kent. As she begins to flee England, she experiences flashes from the past. The bloody murder. The girl she once loved more than life itself. All of it. For the first time, Hillary Nathan is finally forced to face what happened all of those years ago as a grown woman, and she learns to let go of the memories of a young Juliet Hulme that have haunted her for forty years. A story of love, obsession, and bloodshed inspired by the 1954 murder of Honorah Mary Parker in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Cloudette is seven years old, but her world feels far heavier than it should. Her mother's love is a haunting blend of manipulation and cruelty, leaving Cloudette caught between fear and hope. Every day, she learns to survive-and to dream of a brighter tomorrow. Warning: This story explores child abuse and contains eerie psychological themes. Can Cloudette find the light she's been longing for in the shadows?

✦ COMPLETE ✦ - Book One (no cliffhanger) His greatest sin wasn't treason. It was having a half-human daughter. Prince Eirran is a winged Ilari, a former warrior and Seraph. His only crime was loving a human woman - a crime that cost her her life and left him with a living, breathing secret: their daughter. Lily is half-human, half-Ilari, and utterly wingless. A "mudborn princess" - not a title, but a slur. Her very existence is a blasphemy that could shatter the empire. To protect her, Eirran must hide her in plain sight, battling the vipers of his court who would see her erased. But as Lily grows, a dormant inheritance awakens within her - that could unravel the world itself. Earthborn blends political intrigue with mythic atmosphere and deeply intimate character work. For fans of the fierce parent-child bond of The Last of Us and the Witcher. This is a story where love is not a romance, but a rebellion. This story features: ✦ A heart-wrenching, central father-daughter bond. ✦ A brave, perceptive girl who learns to stand in a world built to erase her. ✦ Winged races, aerial legions, and political scheming. ✦ Tear-jerking moments & heart-soaring hope. A Note on Process & Transparency Earthborn was originally written in Croatian. To preserve its lyrical intent in English, it has undergone a careful process of translation and polishing. In this effort, I employed a variety of digital tools, including AI-assisted translation and editing software. My goal is to leverage every available tool to ensure the highest quality reading experience. The core of the work: the story, characters, world, and authorial voice, is mine. (Important to notice: this is me translating my original work.) © Marian Land. All rights reserved. This story and all original content are protected by copyright. Official publication only on platforms listed on the author's website. Any mirrored or audio versions found elsewhere are unauthorized.

In a world filled with monsters that torment and hunt humans in the darkness, there's one boy who stands in their way to protect humanity. Xavier Voidwalker the last of the American bloodline travels around the world to defeat every evil supernatural creatures and entities and to avenge his people by defeating The Weaver a cosmic entity who manipulates the threads of every being in the cosmos. But Xavier is the one who will defy fate and sever his threads from the Weaver.

Ben McDouglas, an incel, wakes up nude and strapped to a hospital bed. He starts to realize that the doctor and the nurse turn him into a host for a known parasite, a human baby via surgery.

Matthew Peterson's consciousness is thrust back to 1991, awakening in his ten-year-old body in his childhood home. But due to a profound cosmic miscalculation, he discovers he is now the female version of himself with no way to return to the present and embedded with memories of a timeline that are slowly unraveling. Forced to relive the 1990's and build a new life as Maya, she must navigate the completely unfamiliar world of girlhood while grappling with dark foreknowledge of future events. Not only must she consolidate a future which is diverging every day, she will attempt to use her prophetic knowledge to prevent tragedies about the world that she knows are coming.

Take a step through veiled shadows of everyday life when familiarity turns wicked. In this selection of chilling tales mundane acts becomes terrifying, and fragile minds crash under extraneous weight of twisted reality. In this book, short horror stories ranging from bite sized pieces to multiple parts - no more than three. A new story every two weeks, a new tale to sink your teeth into. Enter The Dark Tales Anthology for a trip into distant voids of humanity. The deeply disturbing macabre facets of our existence.

What do you want? he asked her. The girl had the answer, but he could never know. At a time when the Supremacy controls the distribution of basic necessities, a fire initiated by rebels sparks a chain of events that causes one city's citizens to question their safety and security. It all starts one July morning. A girl runs through desert and a valley toward the city of Zafran. She is alone, bruised, exhausted, and burdened by thoughts she's helpless to escape and memories too recent to forget. Miles, Pablo, and the rest of the group of young rebels set fire to a building to destroy Supremacy supplies. Anxious and dealing with relationship tension, they carry out their mission until it takes an unexpected turn. Inside the city, a young Vocate is about to have his life turned upside down when an old friend shows up at his doorstep, forcing him to experience trauma from his past and maybe something new. Locus is a multiple Deep POV literary novel. This story follows the emotional experience of an uprising and the intertwining destinies of a group of people all with ties to one city. The rebels, the runaway, and the Vocate are joined by a skilled assassin, dutiful Supremacy officials, and a righteous firefighter, all with a different story to tell. ⚡︎ ➹ ☍ icons correspond to which POV the chapter is narrated by. ⚠️ Content Warning: This story contains strong language, psychological trauma, and graphic violence. Spotify for atmosphere and curiosity: https://open.spotify.com/user/31ong33gc6ucdug5wyblcu5ojlfe