Colonial Stories

May mga himig na hindi natatapos, gaya ng mga alaala na hindi namamatay. May mga pusong nagmamahal sa maling panahon, at may mga kwentong isinulat ng tadhana Kahit labag sa oras. May mga gitara na minsang pinatunog, ay hindi na muling tatahimik. At may mga kwento na, kahit ilang ulit mong pilit balikan, ay sadyang tinuldukan na ng panahon. Limang taon nang naninirahan si Harmony sa Chicago. Sa kanyang pagbabalik-bayan, Akala niya. normal na bakasyon lang ito sa Pilipinas. Pero ang gitara na dala niya, dinala din siya sa nakaraan, sa lumang panahon sa ilalim ng mapanupil na pamumuno ng mga dayuhan. Sa panahon na puno ng lihim na pilit nang nilimot. Mga lihim na unti-unti niyang mabubunyag at tuluyang magpapabago sa buhay niya. Ngunit handa ba siyang bumalik kung ang kapalit ay ang mundong iniwan niya? O pipiliin niyang manatili, kung ang kapalit ay ang taong natutunan niyang mahalin? Dahil May mga pusong itinadhana sa maling panahon ngunit kailanman ay hindi nagkamali sa pagmamahal.

In an age when maps can conquer more than armies, Elena Valenti learns to draw the world in secret. Born in sixteenth-century Venice to the royal cartographer of the Portuguese crown, she grows up among compasses and parchment - tools that decide the fates of nations. But Elena's gift is more dangerous than her father ever imagined: she alters the maps that feed empires, hiding villages, sacred sites, and entire peoples from the greedy eyes of kings. When her deception is exposed, Elena's world collapses. Her father is executed for treason, imperial fleets are dispatched to hunt her down, and the cartographers she once idolized become her fiercest enemies. Armed with nothing but ink, stolen charts, and a secret atlas written in codes no conqueror can read, she flees across oceans - pursued by soldiers, spies, and rival mapmakers who would kill for the knowledge she carries. From the markets of Lisbon to the gold-dusted cities of West Africa, from the palaces of Mughal India to the misty peaks of the Andes, Elena's journey becomes more than a flight for survival. It is a mission to rewrite the world itself. Along the way, she forges unlikely alliances - a priestess who encodes landscapes into song, a ronin who reads the sea like scripture, a rebel princess who believes maps are prisons. Each teaches her a truth the empires fear: that land does not belong to those who claim it, but to those who remember it. Sweeping from Renaissance Europe to the uncharted edges of the known world, The Mapmaker's Daughter is a story of courage and betrayal, ink and blood, and a young woman who turns cartography into rebellion. It is about how maps do more than chart the world - they define it - and how one woman dares to redraw its lines.

Elodie Fleetwood's mother went missing three months ago to look for a treasure that her pirate father wanted to keep hidden. Sky pirates kidnap Elodie in attempt to lure her mother out to lead them to the treasure, thrusting her into a world of magic, mysticism, and gold. On her adventure, she learns more about the treasure her father buried and its ties to the lost civilization of Manoa, a magical empire that once ruled over the Sea of Gales.

This novel is a mashup of Snow White and The Little Mermaid, with a dash of Beauty and the Beast. Adriana is a lovely mermaid princess in an undersea kingdom that values physical beauty above all else. Jacob is a reluctant apprentice to a human apothecary on the island of Avalonia.

Set in colonial India, in the 1910's when the Nationalism movement arose, Ann a beautiful, smart, young woman, is constantly bashed by her step mother and the society, for being a half-caste. She is an offspring from her father's first marriage to a British woman, who was killed during the early riots, when she was just a babe. Her father retired from his service as a British Official and suffers from early dementia. Supporting the family, proves to be difficult, despite Ann's work as a governess at an Indian British official's household. Her step-mother finds a perfect match for her sister Gauri with the family of an Industrialist to secure her future and the family's wealth. Kalyani Singh Oberoi, the Oberoi family matriarch, finds Gauri simple, beautiful, traditional, and perfect choice for her grandson. The most eligible bachelor in town, who had returned from Cambridge, to run his family Business, Shivaay. He is ruthless, arrogant and he returns to India with a secret mission in hand. Marriage is the last thing on his mind. But when he meets Ann, he is intrigued by her, and most of all he sees an opportunity. Shivaay and Ann embarks on an epic journey of love, loss, and vengeance, amidst socio political calamities.

A scientist flung into the past. A conquistador who is her sworn enemy. A love that could rewrite history. Dr. Lila Reyes wanted to cure the future. Instead, she's trapped in the brutal past of the Spanish colonization, where her medical knowledge makes her both a savior and a target. General Alejandro is duty-bound to conquer her and her people, but he never expected to find an intellect that matched his own in a woman he was taught to see as a savage. Now, as villages burn and empires clash, Lila is torn between the warrior who represents her new home and the general whose soul calls to her own. In a world where one wrong move means death, can a love born from fire ever survive?

Aku, Subagyo Askara, seharusnya merasa bangga. Hari ini, cabang ke-100 Pecelku diresmikan. Semua orang bersorak, bertepuk tangan, dan tersenyum. Tapi di antara lautan kebahagiaan itu, aku hanya duduk diam, terpaku pada bayangan yang tak pernah benar-benar pergi. Gordon. Laki-laki berbintik yang dulu adalah sahabatku, cinta pertamaku. Putra dari Maria, perempuan Belanda yang menikah dengan Slamet Suroto, seorang petani pribumi. Bersama, mereka meracik pecel terbaik yang pernah kucicipi. Tapi tahun 1947, masa Bersiap, tidak memberi kami ruang untuk bertahan. Aku muda dan pengecut, lebih memilih keselamatan sendiri daripada tetap di sisinya. warung mereka terbakar. Gordon dan ibunya menghilang. Puluhan tahun berlalu, aku membangun kerajaan kuliner di atas dosa. Hari ini, aku membuat sepiring pecel terakhir untuk diriku sendiri. Dan saat mencicipinya, aku tahu-penyesalan tak bisa ditebus. Kesuksesan ini tak pernah benar-benar milikku. Itu milik Gordon. Dan aku, hanya seorang lelaki tua yang hidup dalam dosa yang tak terampuni

Second Lieutenant Miguel Tavera was a Spanish mestizo who never wanted to be a soldier. A young man whose promise had always been in the arts and in language. But when duty-and a family name steeped in power-forced him to lead his own men, he ran. Until Layla, a woman whose healing hands brought her more trouble than comfort, finds him-on the verge of unconsciousness, dehydrated and wounded. In the quiet of her humble home, she nurses him back to health. Time slows as they share stolen glances and tenderness that belonged only to lovers. Yet in a world where names carried power, and class determined how one lived, Layla finds herself in the center of vile accusations. Miguel must choose between the world that gave him the finest things it could offer and the woman who saved his life.

In a future where human life is worth almost nothing, four colonists are sent on a voyage to explore a world that displayed the color green. Under-equipped, under-informed and under-staffed, will they make it?

A bold, powerful, and deeply poetic spoken word piece about heritage, history, and the unbreakable resilience of Nigerians. Two girls step into the land of their colonizers, the same soil that once took from their people and reclaim their story with courage, memory, and ancestral strength. This dramatic, emotional performance explores identity, colonization, and the pride of being Nigerian: a nation that refuses to fall. No matter how many times the world tests us, we rise again. A fierce declaration of home, history, and the fire that lives in every Nigerian.

the art on the thumbnail is not mine! Anywho, the world of Foxhole, the two nations being the Wardens and the Colonials as people say it. Have been at war and ceasefired too many times..it's unclear how many times these two nations fought, to the point that the largest section of land that is connecting the two continents, the two nations. Is all but mainly No Man's Land with minimal presence of civilian life, and rather way more military life-style. Our Colonial, a Collie. is named Nellie, and our boy, the man in the Warden Empire is named Jurgen. The two will be deployed into a battle against one another, in a ever persistent war! There will be blood, dead collies and Warden! Logistics losing alot of equipment because they somehow invented drifting and crash into the river. Who knows, these two will find a new kind of victory war point for two individuals..

( Based on the Roblox experience: Guts & Blackpowder. ) They were interrupted by those rotting, once-dead bodies that ravaged three quarters of Europe's population. The quantity is unimaginable, invading and taking over cities, even islands. Meet Sergeant Charles Sang, a French soldat. A horrid disease takes over Europe, but somehow, only one place is unaffected. [ DOES NOT FOLLOW CANONICAL LORE ]

[Revolutionary War 1776] A young woman of well-breeding, losing all and forced into prostitution, witnesses the death of a continental soldier made into a mockery. Stealing his clothes, she joins Washington's army. Among death, disease, and devastation, she thinks herself in love with two men, one finding out her secret. Rosanna, unable to confess her feelings, struggles to survive and protect both men.

In this alternate universe set in the year 1776, amidst the fires of the American Revolution, Martha Skelton Jefferson, a scientist and visionary aerospace engineer dares to dream beyond the limits of her era. As war rages and freedom hangs in the balance, can her revolutionary inventions turn the tide and help George Washington defeat the British?

[ Originally written for semester 2 class assignment - SHORT FILM WRITING ] LOGLINE: In colonial Malaya, a young boy's gift from his recently deceased English family blossoms an unknown side to his history and lineage from across the sea. After his adoptive English parents are involved in a car crash, Daim finds himself stuck in a will dispute between himself and Ewing Danbury, his adoptive uncle. Other than that, the shadowed mystery of a man named Raden Noh Syaifudin, known only to Daim through his late mother's letter that leads him to find Noh Syaifudin's note to his father in his botanical laboratory, raising questions on his biological family's existence. He asks his housekeeper, Mek if she knows who Noh Syaifudin is. Realizing that this man is close to his late adoptive father, Daim tries to get hold of him but is unsuccessful. However, he finds more evidence that points towards Noh Syaifudin possibly being his biological father. In the chaos that ensues as Ewing tries to take over his adoptive father's will to him all for himself, Daim finally pieces the puzzle together and tells the lawyer and Ewing that the willed items for him are actually from Raden Noh Syaifudin, ending with Daim asking for their help to prove his relationship with this mysterious man.

As the war for America's freedom stretches on, Emmeline Reed is sure that she knows exactly what she stands for. Her brothers fight in the British Royal Army. Her father is a British Major. In every way, she is the ideal example of what a Loyalist young lady ought to be. But when a soldier encourages her to form her own beliefs, she begins to question all she knows. Now she must decide who she will trust, how she will fight for what she believes in, and what she is willing to sacrifice.

It's impossible to be two people at once. Unless you're Abby Kilken. At 27, Abby's life hasn't exactly been all she would have hoped. That college diploma wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and she spends most of her time regretting all that time she spent studying rather than going out and experiencing the world. All she wants is a little excitement. After a strange date with a handsome man she'd only met the day before, Abby gets more than she bargained for when she finds herself waking up in Belgium. In 1944. And she keeps waking up as someone new. The strangest part is she isn't lost or confused. She knows exactly where she is, and who she is. Even if who she is...isn't exactly her.

This is a completely made up story with new youtuber's, monsters, and exiting storylines that will keep you reading!

IN THE BEGINNING... Come on an epic journey spanning thousands of years of history and three continents as we explore the backstories behind some of your favorite Suburban Vampire characters. See how and why they became vampires, and how they lived before coming together in the Suburban Vampire series. Contained herein are stories that are shocking, horrifying, and heartbreaking, as well as enthralling, exciting, and moving. Take a thrill ride into the past with the BOOK OF ORIGINS!

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