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A dead gangster gets a second chance at life-and discovers resurrection may be the cruelest joke of all. Forty-year-old Knox Cross dies in a fire born from betrayal and wakes up as Antwon Carter, a fifteen-year-old boy in Kokiri: a world resembling Japan, where women hold overwhelming power, bloodlines decide status, and boys survive by staying soft, obedient, and protected. But Antwon's life was never empty. His sister, Sakura, wished for her brother back. Instead, she got a stranger wearing his face. Now Knox has to survive high school, clan politics, a possessive heiress determined to claim him, and a genie whose help always carries another cost. In Kokiri, protection can become ownership, affection can become obligation, and love is rarely separate from power. Worse, Antwon may not be gone. His memories remain. His pain lingers. His body remembers things Knox never lived. And the longer Knox lives as Antwon, the harder it becomes to tell where one life ends and the other begins. Because his greatest rival is not another boy. It is the person he used to be. I'm My Own High School Rival is a psychological reincarnation drama blending dark romance, school life, trauma, and matriarchal clan politics. The question is not simply who Antwon will choose. It is who he will become.

Monastery of Second Chances is a gothic dystopian horror set inside a vast, walled-less prison governed by the enigmatic Sisters-women who radiate a calm, maternal presence that slowly dissolves resistance into obedience. Inside, punishment is not enforced. It is surrendered to. The inmates begin to regress-emotionally, psychologically, even linguistically-slipping backward into childhood states under the Sisters' soothing control. Molly arrives questioning the system. She is told not to. It is better not to ask. Everything remains stable until her only friend refuses to "go with the flow" and chooses death instead of compliance. Now Molly is left with a question the system cannot soothe away: Was that a tragedy... or an escape? And why does the monastery feel gentler after it happens?

The Academy promises opportunity. The Advanced Track promises greatness. But both are built on a lie. Trainees are shaped into enforcers - polished for the public, conditioned for control. When a rising student uncovers what happens to those who fall behind, she realises the Academy's real purpose isn't to uplift the nation. It's to control it. And she's next in line to be perfected.

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It lives by the sea. It eats what it can take. It leaves when it wants. Until it can no longer make a decision. In a clean, quiet home far from the coast, a cat is given a bowl, a bed, and a name it does not understand. The days become simple. The world becomes small. The body softens. The mind follows.

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Perseverance. My hopes is that this story may help others who are in pursuit of their own betterment despite a past of negativity induced both by self and 3rd party. (This story is incomplete) The continuance will be available soon This is a rough draft. All criticism welcome