❝all empires fall, girl, watch as yours turns to ashes around you.❞ cover by: @allamason

"This is the end of the world, boy, and only together can you prevent Hell from being unleashed upon us." first draft © 2019, arkhaic

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"I want to defile you, destroy you, corrupt you in the most sinfully beautiful way. Break you until you're completely mine." "And then?" "Then I'll piece you back together, of course." He took another step in her direction, closing the distance between them. "Love can be holy." He said but the look in his eyes promised anything but. "It can be kind and gentle. It can be the flutter inside your chest when you feel someone touch you, the blush staining your cheeks when someone brushes his knuckles over them." To prove his point further, he took his knuckles and brushed them over her sharp jawline, all the way to her lightly dusted cheeks and sharp cheekbones. "However, love can also be vile. Dark and all-consuming. The kind of love that makes you want to fall to your knees and let it destroy you." He let his palm rest on her soft skin and felt the warmth she provided so carelessly travel to him. "That's all I can offer you." Nathaniel Russ is a man devoid of passion. Cold, stern, a tragedy with skin. A wreckage just seconds before the crash. A writer. He spends countless hours teaching philosophy at the local university, waiting for something to make the words crawl out of him with the same vigorous appetite they once did. And he finds it, at the most unexpected moment. Guinevere Westbrook is a woman haunted by the sins of her past. And she just happens to be the muse he had been waiting for, even though she refuses to accept it. So, he orchestrates a game meant for two. A game. That's all it was. Until it wasn't. Adult themes, proceed with caution. All images belong to their respective owners. Source: Pinterest.

Many centuries ago, in the kingdom of Chuvaria lived a young poor maiden named 'Rose Van Sparrow'. Rose and her family were the dwellers of a small village in the kingdom and struggled to survive through the obstacles of life. A hopeless romantic, beautiful girl with brown eyes, Rose had never dreamt of any luxury other than the well-being of her beloved family. Her only wish was to live a life of peace. But fate has something else destined for her. One event, one meeting, and one sight with a mighty black knight changed the whole life of Rose Van Sparrow. A life of fate, imminent truth, and affectionate love awaited her arrival. While Rose believed she was an insignificant citizen of the kingdom, her true identity was hidden deep beneath the dense soil of fabricated phenomena. And to unravel the greatest twists, you must read the story of 'The Knight's Rose'. A novel filled with grief, fate, and love! A romantic tale of a Knight and his Rose. ⇹ Summary by @KhadeejahEmad ⇹ ⇹ Cover by @IamSumayya ⇹

You can't ignore Fate and you can't defy the Fates. That was once the most important rule known to the mortals of Earth and the gods and goddesses of Olympus. Feared by even Zeus, king of the gods, they were respected by the Greek pantheon. The three Fates, fabled immortal goddesses, spin, measure, and cut each and every being’s thread of life. Outliving even the gods and goddesses, they have seen their legacy discredited as mere myths. But in the modern world when the earth is slowly falling apart and Fate is constantly tried, Fate sends Atley Moira and her sisters a box containing a note that proclaims "they're returning" and fifteen life strands that are slowly turning immortal. Things tend to get a little out of hand when the gods have no idea what they are or what to do with their emerging abilities and it’s up to the Fates to conform the new gods and goddesses to their ways once again. Why have they returned and when will they learn to stop baiting fate?

*ONC ROUND ONE QUALIFIER* *ONC ROUND TWO QUALIFIER* *ONC AMBASSADOR'S PICK* *COMMUNITY CURATOR PICK -- JULY 2020 & FEBRUARY 2021* *MINI AWARD WINNER FOR BEST DIALOGUE -- OPEN DOOR AWARDS 2021* *SUN WINNER - FIRST PLACE FOR FANTASY -- OPEN DOOR AWARDS 2021* ❝ how can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ❞ | IN WHICH THERE IS A WAKING, AND A DREAMING, AND A RETRIEVING OF MEMORIES, AND THOSE WHO SPEAK IN DREAMS DO NOT EVEN KNOW THEIR OWN TONGUE | ❝ there are no witnesses to a dream. ❞ (#ONC prompts #15 & #30) (cover by @TahliePurvis )

Prince of Persia meets The Wrath and the Dawn in this epic retelling of the life of the Abbasid Queen Al-Khayzuran. Arabia - Circa 764. Al-Khayzuran's life changes forever when she is kidnapped from her home and sold to a caravan returning from Hajj. An unlikely and altogether fateful series of events leads her face to face with the gates of the capital, a mysterious desert spirit, and a young prince on the verge of rising to the seat of Caliph. Thrust into a world of deception, royalty, intrigue and war, Khayzuran must learn everything she can as fast as she can, or leave her fate in the hands of her enemies.

virtues are for fools, darling.