**Synopsis: "Ambitions in the Shadows"** In the heart of New York City, Malachai and Samara navigate the gritty streets, entwining love and ambition in a dangerous dance. This modernized take on Macbeth explores their ascent through the worlds of crime, politics and influence. Against a backdrop of urban intrigue, the couple faces enemies, forges alliances, and confronts choices with echoes of Shakespearean tragedy. Belly of Malachai is a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and the high-stakes gamble for power, where the shadows hold secrets, and the pursuit of ambition mirrors the timeless themes of Macbeth in a contemporary landscape.

"I wonder what hurts the most? Losing your child to suicide or to murder." - Doctor Roe - For Theodora Wallace battling St. Kathrine Academy - the disclosed private campus for politician children - something she is not. Hustling through struggles with her unique family structure and abiding by the rules of life, have her keeping tabs in her marvelous brain for days. However, life is no straight path as she becomes lead witness to a suicide on her nights watching the local beach and it doesn't make it easier when the fancied Marlowe Richard - the charming lad of the academy is the one at fault. Therapy can't even seem to tame her thoughts as she yet again gets tangled with mental health and instead of just thinking about Marlowe, begins to intertwine herself with Maxwell, his twin brother. Now, the pressing issue isn't just why Marlowe killed himself right in front of her eyes but rather what led up to that - and most importantly how much can be deceived by the public eye when drugs, unlawful practices of medicine, mental illnesses, unregistered guns and a whole brotherhood history is brought to the surface. Wondering why Marlowe killed himself won't be the only thing flashing news headlines when a massacre is coming slow and silent to everyone Marlowe threw his fated red string at. - Trigger Warning: This Is A Severely Somber And Slowburn Book. Please Read With Ease. *Priority*

NOBODY LEARNS FROM ICARUS. ©® Zainab R.H 2019

SINNERS AND SAINTS ALIKE © hxlios 2020

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'to indeed be a god.' [ poetry + prose] beautiful cover done by @catmatic

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pyrrhic victories © 2019 fighues

They're better than you in every way. School captain of London's most elite private school, Ainsworth College, Clementine Fernsby forms an unlikely friendship with the kings of the academy, The Aristocrats. Together, the five of them investigate and unearth the dark secret buried within the academy, and within Clementine's own family. The first book in the Aristocrats series.

𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽ℴ𝓃ℯ𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓋ℯ𝓃ℴ𝓂 → original poetry & prose → written from july 2020 to july 2021 Copyright © 2020 broken-statues