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The gods have no pity for humans and their impermanence. Why would they care for lives measured in years, when time marches into millennia for them? The immortals stay in their city. The humans remain in their parts of the world. That is until a human terrorist group gains control over the Goddess of Death, forcing her to kill their enemies and increase their power. All immortals keep their backs turned on humanity. Except Samil, the God of Festivals and the Arts. Samil knows he isn't very powerful among his kind. Or important. Or confident. Yet, when he learns that the humans are desperate, he chooses to do a deceptively simple thing: Help them. ___________________________________ @Voyageavecmoi was kind enough to write this review of my book and she described it 100x better than I ever could lol. With her permission, I'm posting it below. Also, check out her book "Flight Risk." It's a sweet and deep romance about two characters negotiating their feelings for each other while life is doing everything to tear them apart. The characters have such mature conversations and, there's no reliance on the miscommunication trope at all. I'm *obsessed.* If you enjoy intriguing fantasy novels with deep and thoughtful themes, check out 'The Gifts of Mortality' by @eleanorkennedy14 . It explores the concept of mortality and how it gives life meaning through the eyes of both gods and humans. The story follows Samil, the god of the Festivals and the Arts, who is shocked by the apathy of his fellow gods when a human terrorist group gains control over the Goddess of Death. Despite finding no support among his kind, he's determined to help the humans, which sets him down an interesting course. There are lots of great twists in this novel, and I also loved seeing how queerness was worked in throughout both the immortal and mortal realms. Samil is a sweet and refreshing character to root for who is determined to see the good in the world.

Observing humanity has been a machine's quest for millenia, but what will happen when it gains sentience?

I never thought sneezing would be so life-changing. I mean, I've heard of people getting a broken nose, but lost their soul? That's a new one. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And mine begins with a sneeze. Wordcount : 2290

A young girl gets a fire lizard for her birthday. A young fire lizard is kidnapped from her home. When their two worlds collide, their lives will never be the same. ~~~ Super-short chapters! Word count is under 6,000 for the whole story. ~~~ I'm leaning hard into tonal whiplash. You have been warned! ~~~ Completed January 27th, 2024 Art is by me :)

A grief-stricken mother relives the final days of her troubled daughter while attempting to preserve and restore data from her memory logs. *** In the midst of her divorce proceedings with her estranged husband, Helen raises their troubled daughter, Alice, in an unassuming town of Wickington in her home state. Alice's sudden demise prompts Helen to extract her daughter's memory to be stored digitally. With the data in hand, Helen seeks to change the ending of Alice's story- by any means possible. Inspired by: ALICE IN WONDERLAND X BLACK MIRROR

It appeared one day without anyone noticing, opening a corridor into the earth, and even the drowned could not say where it led. * I don't often write short stories (I'm rather terrible at them), but I've always been terrified of sinkholes, so there you go.