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🌊⚓ The Chronicles of Aruanda (shortstory collection) *Updates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Beyond life. Beyond death. Beyond the veil. In the vast spiritual city of Aruanda, souls return, disappear, forge alliances, break oaths, and struggle to find their place across realms shaped by memory, destiny, and the forces of Nature itself. 🐟 First Chronicle: Follow Migina, the Girl of the Wharf, as she searches for a lost friend and discovers that some reunions can change everything. ✨ Spiritual Fantasy 🕊️ Afro-Diasporic & Indigenous-Inspired Worldbuilding 🌙 Speculative Fiction | Afterlife Realms | Ancient Mysteries Welcome to Aruanda. Here you'll find standalone tales set within Reminiscences of Aruanda, an Afro-diasporic and Indigenous Brazilian universe. Some souls arrive. Others are hunted.

The Seventh Crown Earth has always believed it was alone. People wake up, go to work, sit through class, chase promotions, fall in love, and plan for tomorrow without ever questioning the world around them. To everyone else, history is complete. They're wrong. Beyond a hidden veil lies Aetheria-a realm where kingdoms were built on magic, dragons still rule the skies, and forgotten gods left their mark on the land. For centuries, Aetheria and Earth have remained separated by an ancient barrier, keeping their worlds-and their histories-apart. That barrier is beginning to crack. When seventeen-year-old Azriel Hayes survives a chance encounter with a mysterious Rift, he becomes bound to an artifact believed to have vanished long ago: the Seventh Crown. In a single night, the ordinary life he knew disappears. Creatures once dismissed as myths begin hunting him, secret organizations emerge from the shadows, and a conflict older than recorded history pulls him to its center. As Rifts appear across the globe, the line between Earth and Aetheria grows thinner. Monsters pour into modern cities, long-buried secrets come to light, and the truth behind humanity's forgotten past refuses to stay buried. The Seven Crowns were never forged to grant power. They were created to keep something locked away. Now one of them has awakened. Caught between two worlds on the edge of collapse, Azriel must uncover why the Crown chose him before the force imprisoned behind it is set free. The answer lies beyond the Rifts, where the fate of Earth and Aetheria has been waiting for him all along. Some inherit a crown. Azriel was chosen by one.

Sixteen-year-old Xabiere Knight was just trying to survive his first year at Ashbourne Academy a school for the supernatural, the powerful, and the deadly. But when a forbidden archive unlocks something ancient buried in his blood, Xabiere becomes the center of a prophecy no one wants to talk about and everyone seems afraid of. Now shadows whisper his name. Magic bends around him. And the people closest to him may not be what they seem. Ashbourne has rules. Xabiere was born to break them.

A story that I thought of today during quantine and was bored, I might delete. I'n a world that is made of glass, try not to crack and you survive but what happens if you wonder off from that world.... Read more and see what happens..... Heattank

Sequel to The Mekai: Return of the Prince! A few weeks after thwarting Ren's plans, Ray is called upon to escort the daughter of Central Kingdom's governor, Mikayla Koral, to Southern Kingdom. There, she will train to be able to surpass her father as governor. When a mysterious new adversary with strange powers arrives and threatens the lives of the Koral Family, Ray realizes that this is more than just some ordinary escort mission. Now, Ray, Jerry, John, and Yin embark one of the most important missions of their lives- to protect Mikayla on her journey. As more dangers arise, Ray and his friends soon discover that some things don't happen by chance and some plots run deeper than you know......

Book Cover Designed by: CMGrey, a valued friend! Navi was an ordinary citizen and war hero of Amaron. Yet, he always felt he belonged elsewhere, destined for something great. He couldn't have been more right. Soon not only does Navi discover that he's the son of a ruthless and fearsome king, but also that his mother, Marta, is a runaway fugitive- all in one day. In order to protect his mother, Navi agrees to leave behind all he's ever known and return to the infamous kingdom of Rall. Following the untimely death of his father, plots, schemes, deadly battles, treachery from every angle, and love are Navi's greatest challenges as he is left at the mercy of his spiteful and jealous older siblings: Barabas, Juliana, and Gael. Will Navi hold fast to his own beliefs and morals, or will the shadows of corruption destroy him and his past, and leave a path of death and destruction in its wake?

Set in a world where an meteor from an distant place sent by an unknown entity, broke apart and those pieces fell onto Earth and revealing OrishaStones. The Orisha Stones affected people with high levels of melanin in them so alot of black and brown people were affected and given extraordinary powers. Of course the government did what it always do, gave the people a choice, join them or become dissected lab rats. A war broke out and sadly the OrishaBorns didn't win and they were all gone until this one baby was saved by a kind soul who hid them with Cajun circus. Lucky the baby's powers went dormant for a long time until they reached their 20s and then government's old detection system went off and found them

She ruled with silk and silence. He sailed by choice, not command. Zahara Velouris is no ordinary queen. In her world, women hold power, spiders keep secrets, and crowns are chosen-not inherited. Captain Rowan Blacktide is everything she was warned against: a pirate with quiet discipline, dangerous restraint, and a habit of arriving exactly when he's not supposed to. For years, they orbit each other through feasts, captures, and almosts-refusing to name what simmers between them. When politics, pride, and time threaten to decide for them, Zahara must confront the one truth neither of them can outrun: Some loves are older than rules. Some choices conquer everything. A slow-burn romantic fantasy set in the Velvet Universe. Nothing taken. Everything chosen.

Nadia Kemp is a very special witch. Why is she special? Only her family knows. Nadia, a lonely witch, is the new girl in town. After years of homeschooling, Nadia begins her countdown until the first day of school but finds herself targeted by persons unknown. Determined to have the normal high school life she's dreamed of, Nadia has less than two weeks to find who's after her and why. Can Nadia defeat her pursuers and avoid capture or will she never walk down the pristine hallways of Lyndonburg High School? Thanks to elphadora for the amazing cover!

It's exam time but feisty Nigerian Secondary School (High School) Senior, Maro has more things to worry about than being weak at Math when a special "thing" is stolen from her - the thing that protects her life as a supernatural being called an Abiku - a thing that she wants back so badly that she dangerously enlists the help of a reincarnated witch, a Deity and a... cobbler? "Abiku is a Yoruba word that can be translated as "predestined to death". It is from (abi) "that which possesses" and (iku) "death". Abiku refers to the spirits of children who die before reaching puberty; a child who dies before twelve years of age being called an Abiku, and the spirit, or spirits, who caused the death being also called Abiku." - Wikipedia Basis of Cover Art: Sit Haiiro(SIT)... http://www.kaifineart.com/2015/04/sit-haiirosit.html This story is also published (except for the final chapter) on my blog: https://indigofm.wordpress.com/

🔥 SOULWEAVER 🔥 BOOK 1 He was born where mercy did not exist. Where looking up could get you killed. Where souls were already for sale. Sol should not exist. Born at the dawn of American slavery, hunted by hatred and watched by heaven, Sol sees the world differently than anyone else. He sees souls as threads. And when grief takes everything from him, he learns to do the unthinkable weave souls into power. At first, it's insects. Animals. Small things. Weak things. But a human soul? That changes everything. As angels descend to reclaim what he has stolen and monsters walk freely among men, Sol is forced to run through frozen forests, brutal cities, and a world that would rather see him dead than powerful. Each thread he binds makes him stronger. Each choice pulls him further from the boy he once was. This is not a story about heroes. This is the birth of something forbidden. 🩸 Dark fantasy 🧵 Unique soul-weaving magic system 🔥 Villain / anti-hero origin 🕯️ Historical brutality, angels, demons, vampires If you like stories where power has a price, gods are not merciful, and survival means becoming dangerous. Welcome to Soulweaver.

Being the daughter of the villages most know queen isn't easy - having to live up to people expectations of you, thinking you're the most perfect girl of them all. Except they're wrong. Aziela feels as if everyone is against her. Until she meets him..

Cover created by @MissMysteryGame: a great friend, amazing artist, and outstanding author. *After reading this- go check out The Temperature of Frost right now! The second sequel to The Mekai: Return of the Prince. Ray, Jerry, John, Yin, and Yang are not only friends. They are now a fully functional team dedicated to protecting Central Kingdom and fighting Ren every step of the way. Now, the newly christened "Celestials" have an even greater obstacle: actually being a team while balancing their personal lives. The matter at hand becomes even more rigorous when a slightly more powerful Ren creates another dynamic duo of destruction, who work perfectly in union. Can Ray and the others pull together their gifts and strengths to stand the test of time? Or are will their differences mark the eminent doom for the Celestials.

*This book is a collection of the storylines and sagas following the first story arc (Books I-IV). Three months after defeating his greatest foe and breaking his curse, Ray returns to Central Kingdom to begin life anew. But soon new foes, old rivals, and new adventures begin to surround him and the Celestials which will challenge both Ray and his morals. Soon, he will discover the true weight of his title, the "King of Warriors".

Fun facts! FUN FACTS FOR EVERYONE!!!! Did you know that the novella, The Mekai: The Return of the Prince took a year to write? Did you know that the basis of the story has existed for years prior? This gift to faithful readers has all of fun facts about The Mekai, it's symbols, character developments, and history. It also serves as a way to briefly see into the mind of the writer, Donavan Smalley (me)! So read, discover, and learn- you'll be surprised what you may find!

Nothing is ever as it seems. Tanya and Avery's lives are on the line after a secret government job goes wrong. Gifted with unique abilities that Tanya never fully knew about, Avery promises to keep her safe despite the odds being against them. There are monsters that lurk in the dark... and the person beside you just might be one of them. *Fantasy Romance *Black characters * Thrilling twists and turns

*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 )

Years after fleeing their homeland, Xolani and Raine have finally been able to find peace. However, that peace is shattered when receiving a royal command to return home and answer for what they've done so long ago. Do they take their two children and flee or do they fight for the peace they long for?