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English and Tagalog Compilation | #3 IN POETRY | The Fiction Awards 2016 Winner © 2016 kyeriella all rights reserved book cover made by @OhWanderlust_

This story is about a middle-class man, Henry, whose life in London takes a strange turn after suffering a mental breakdown which leads him to embark on a quest to establish a unique connection with another person - and that person is the man he has hired to kill himself. Henry has a wife and a little daughter and on the surface everything appears to fit neatly within his humdrum life, yet a vivid moment of awakening takes him down a path there is no coming back from. A tenuous truce with the contract killer breaks down and soon all bets are off. -----------------

The Alchemist, by H.P. Lovecraft. This short story was written in 1908, and first published in the November 1916 issue (No. 4) of the United Amateur.

Falling in love was never meant to be easy. Falling in love with your neighbour seemed too good to be true. Falling in love with your teacher is completely wrong and should never happen. But all these things did. Falling in love doesn't always end with happily ever after. Can two people with secrets, a jealous ex, an over bearing mother, a man who's out for revenge and heart breaking memory fall in love and make things work or will it all just prove to be too much.

Fear is all Sarah Rosenwal has ever known, and Maximus Castlemaine is everything she fears. Scars from her past have yet to fade when mist of dark lies and darker deception begin to gather around her. And the only path that leads out is through the arms of a Rogue. But where her mind tells her he is far more dangerous a bet, her heart whispers another. Maximus has put countless hearts to fear, but the sight of it in a pair of green eyes pure as virgin Jades changes something vital in him. He yearns to be the one to chase her fears away. Burns to see her melt at his fevered touch, his heated kisses. But for his every step forward, she takes two back. As secrets and betrayals rage, Maximus is done waiting for the dice of fate to roll in his favour. Sarah will be his. He would carve his path through hell to her, but she will be his.