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The Girl Who Kept Running by RhodoraO
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He ran into her at street theater. She was a force of nature, not a casual first time hire. She brought the house down with her performance, literally pulled the audience to their feet in standing ovation. Her performance was too real, unnerving, deeply unsettling to him. He spent all his energy keeping up with her. At the end of the play, she snatched her earnings from the director's hands and ran away, leaving a trail of questions behind her, the most burning one in his mind was: Would he ever see her again? ____________________ This ongoing novel imagines a world that our younger generations inherit after a series of successive presidencies in the same vein as the current model. There is no need for erecting walls, as the biggest divide created by humanity - that of social class - takes care of a post modern segregation. The poor are literally marginalized into slum-like townships and tend to be of color. The names of these townships would be enough to tell you their story. The rich, well, remain happily oblivious in the big American cities. In this world find a mysterious girl whose identity must be hidden or she would be hunted down and a young street actor who falls for her intrigue. Discover how they survive, born into a society not prepared to give them a chance. For them, the dystopia came without an apocalypse. Copyrighted 2018 _________________________________________________ Updates every 5-6 days. Currently on hiatus for revisions. Most impressive rank: #87 in dystopia/dystopian #90 in future (17/09/18) ________________________________________________________ Cover credits: Thanks are due to the amazing New Zealand artist Shane Rebenschied who allowed me to use one of his illustrations on his portfolio at http://blot.com. I used basic photoshopping to add some shades and used the awesome text effects from http://picturetopeople.com
Plague Saint [NOW A PUBLISHED BOOK] by auroraanorth
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[PREVIEW ONLY] No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint of Devil's Pass was a real doctor. But when Winter learned he was only saving the rich and planned to let her mother die, she confronted him. And killed him. The death was an accident, but taking his place to save lives was a choice. Then, Winter's forced to kill again to save her brother. Her double life, already doomed to fail, is complicated further when her assistant insists on tracking down the murderer. Attempting to cover her tracks leaves Winter tangled in a political web. All the while, people are getting sicker, and trying to find the cure leads her to an enemy far smarter and more dangerous than she is. Powerful people want to see Winter fail. There's more to the plagues than meets the eye. Winter is rapidly running out of time, but she's determined to save her brother from death and her city from corruption. And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way.
Thornderous by incen_dia
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'She was like the earth after rain and I resembled to the mighty sunlight, like a goddamn hero. But, too stiff to escape out of the blues. They seems to meet at the dipping horizon but, it's all a mirage. Just like us.' ~Halcyon Stone 'What the... fuck did he just said' ~Thunder Alton ____ Meet Thunder Alton. Her life was already a havoc. Left alone, family issues and yes, bounty hunting. But after a life turning incident her life became more thunderous. She embroidered herself with blood thirsty thorns, outstretched, shielding her long lost heart. But what happens when these thorns stung into a destructive, manipulative man? He was ruthless but sophisticated, destructive but religionist. He walks, masking his own deafening cry with evility. He is Halcyon Stone. Will he be able to destroy the thornderous clouds of her or will he get lost in the piercing thorns with his own chaos? How deep is he willing to get drowned? Love is sleeping. You never exactly know when you're going to fall. Even if you're noting your every move, still you fall, drowning in sleep, slowly, very slowly, just like love. ____ ✨1st The Crazy Awards Discovering The Stars Awards The Page Turner Awards Budding Stars Awards The Colourful Awards The Lotus Monthly Awards Hidden Phoenix Awards Dream Hearts Awards ✨2nd The Jungle Awards The Shadow Mask Awards Peerless Introvert Awards The Fall Stelar Awards Ineffable Awards The Bookie Awards The Siren Awards The Besties' Awards ✨3rd Tricolor Triennial Awards Phase 3 Books Got Talent 2020 The Lotus Awards The Winter Awards Sweet Creatures Awards The Eternity Awards The Galaxy Awards All Right Reserved © 2020-incen_dia #PenAndInkAwards
Can you feel me by SukritiJain10
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A collection of short poems framed to make you feel the core of it. Some are painted in the colours of present while other wear a cloak of nostalgia, some sparks the importance of self love while other triggers to be bold and fleek ♡ Happy reading! . . . With love Sukriti xoxo
Medusa by BobRyan874
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When I read various Medusa accounts, she is always portrayed as the monster, rather than the human that existed before becoming a gorgon. Medusa wasn't cursed by Athena, but blessed with great power and the ability for her to serve at high priestess to Athena. Only Medusa was given this gift and only she served Athena as an eternal high-priestess of Athena. It is Medusa's head on Athena's shield and no other priestess ever had that honor.
Company Ink [PUBLISHED] by lizaalewis
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"You're playing a very dangerous game, Cassie," Adrian says, staring at me with so much intensity that I take a step backward, my back hitting his office door. My breath hitches. "I like games," I admit in a whisper. "Because I always win." *** With a degree in Event Management, social butterfly Cassandra Carrington never expected to work at a boring old law firm. After being laid off from her job, Cassie reluctantly takes a position at Pearson & Associates, working as Adrian Cavallero's Personal Assistant. Adrian is charismatic, confident, and always gets what he wants. But when the Managing Partner's PA quits right before a big case, Adrian is forced to share Cassie with Blake Pearson. Blake is private, mysterious, and charming. He's also drop-dead gorgeous. With two demanding type-A personalities running her life, working at a law firm just got a little less boring. They say don't dip your pen into the company ink but those people never had two smoldering hot bosses. Join Cassie on her adventures as she struggles to juggle a Mr Grey and a Mr Darcy, all while trying to get her messy life together. 🖤 A sexy chicklit romance that will leave you laughing and swooning. 🖤Highest Ranking #1 in Love #1 in Women's Fiction #1 in Law Firm #1 in New Adult Romance #1 in Power Struggle #1 in Millionaire #2 in Romance #2 in CEO #2 in Humor #3 in Chick Lit #3 in Funny #3 in Love Triangle #3 in Hot
The Dark Sword by BobRyan874
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Mordred attempts to make his own Excalibur to serve darkness.
Terraria: The Journey by SpiritArchive
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Formerly Magnus Lee of Earth, now Blue Coven of Terraria. He doesn't know which god he offended to get punished like this. A whole universe away on a continent surrounded by ocean and taking the identity of someone who should be dead. Since he was sent here, he'll do anything he can to return home, even if it meant offending more gods. Unfortunately, he does not come equipped with knowledge for he doesn't even play Terraria.
School for Psychopaths by DMR666
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What could go wrong in a school full of psychopaths? Everything unless they have a victim. A nameless girl with no family or background, what could be better for a victim. Though she might not be the victim that these psychopaths were hoping for. "The only way of surviving is to become just like them." She tells herself. "A psychopath."
Beneath the Moonlit Silver Sky (UNDER MAJOR EDITING) by Pocket_full_of_Rosie
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Two years after the war things were slowly returning to normal but, it was only a silence before the storm. Read on to find out more!